Anyway, trying to get my head around the SD not backing up the recovery drive.
So if my Mac HD fried, and I cloned back from a SD clone, the recovery drive is not there, fine. But could I then add the recovery drive to the OS, manually and stay with what I have or do I have wipe Mac HD clean to get it as a feature? i.e. putting back in all my apps manually one at a time..?? That is the confusing part.
I use SD for my weekly backups of both of my Macs, and there have been a couple of times when I have needed to do a "full" recovery from an SD clone. That is, I boot my problematic Mac to the clone, use Disk Utility (on the clone) to Erase and Format the internal SSD, and then use SD to do the restore. Given that I have both TechTool Pro and Disk Warrior, it is of little concern to me that SD cannot backup the Recovery HD partition. But, there are at least two ways of re-creating it:
1. Assuming one has the file "Install OS X "whatever OS"" (I have the file "Install OS X El Capitan" in a couple of places), one can use the excellent (and free!) utility called "Recovery Partition Creator" (
http://www.macworld.com/article/2602951/...-any-drive.html). One can get it from here:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2014/07/recovery-partition-creator-3-8/It does work flawlessly with El Capitan.
2. After Erasing and Formatting one's internal drive, perform a fresh, "virgin" installation of the OS one uses. This will create the Recovery HD partition. Then, use Migration Assistant to "migrate"/copy stuff from the SD backup. I have also restored in that fashion too, and again it works perfectly.
