Safety clone usage

[camner]

Thanks.

So, to reiterate, what I'm proposing is making "rollback" points of my Safety Clone, so I must just restore to the SC, not to the main partition. This makes sense.

Of course, the alternative is to make complete clones of my main drive and keep images of them around, but that would take LOTS more space, no?

On another subject, I've read somewhere of a recommendation that one install third party apps (ANYTHING outside of what Apple installs in a new OS install) into a user application folder, rather than in the system app folder. Is that really necessary, or is that overkill in your view?