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Old 01-02-2012, 11:35 AM
conejo conejo is offline
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How do I do disaster recovery in Lion?

Fortunately, I'm not actually trying to recover from a disaster, I'm just making sure I'm in place to be able to do so. I've used SD in the past in prior OSs to perform such a recovery and it worked beautifully. Boot to the cloned drive, then erase and restore to the computer I'm trying to revive.

But with Lion's funkiness, is that still the method? I went and looked at the user guide and it doesn't appear to have been updated for Lion. So I just want to make sure I'm very clear on precisely what I need to be able to recover in Lion.

Currently, I make a bootable cloned backup of my computer to an external hard drive partition once a week using smart update. So if my hard drive were to fail on my laptop, how would I go about restoring from my external hard drive given I'm running Lion now?

I apologize if this is documented elsewhere. I looked through all the forum topics and didn't see it addressed, and as I said above, checked the user guide as well. Sorry if I'm being dense.
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