How to Make a Backup Boot Disk and why you should have one

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** WARNING ** This is a time consuming process for some, so please be patient and follow all steps carefully. Back up your files or run your time machine back up before attempting to ensure no complications or loss of data.

There are many different reasons to create this drive as listed below.

Ability to re-boot a machine that's crashed and run all software and machine as if nothing has happened. Solid back up of your operating system that can restore a failed internal drive much faster than a time machine or internet recovery restore.

Redundancy of your software; in the even software gets updated and is no longer stable; this will provide you to go back and restore the previous version quickly.

Ability to launch your machine from some one else's, you now can plug this drive into other machines and launch your OS. This is often helpful for Digi-Teching, occasionally you will have to work with a client's or a rental machine that may not have software, updates or shortcuts you use and makes life way easier!

Types of boot disk:

Standard Boot Disk (Recommended) – With this disk you will be creating an exact duplicate of the machine. Similar to a Time machine back up, but is not archiving any changes, this is a manual process that you do on your own schedule as opposed to automatically backing up your entire machine daily like a time machine. This will create an exact mirror of your machine. External drive recommended is 25% larger in capacity than your machines drive for future proofing.

Advanced Performance – With this disk you will only copy software/preferences and needed files to run the machine from the external drive, it will not provide any back up to your files. This will require more preparation time/steps and is only useful if you keep your files on external storage and are redundantly backed up. The reason you would use this is to achieve maximum performance on your machine and drive speeds. External drive recommended is the fastest available in a size with 15% more capacity than your OS's necessary files.


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