Boy after deciding to stay with Super Duper, and getting all that info here on how to get a recovery drive if need be in a crisis etc, a new twist just emerged today.

For the first time, I right clicked on my new external drive to take off site and encrypt, and the data partition encrypted fine, but the Mac OS partition said it would not encrypt because it does not have a recovery drive on it!

Message comes up:
"" A Recovery system for the targeted disk is required" and then wont encrypt.

Never seen this before is this new?

Also, Mac OS clone partition has a folder of data I'd like to encrypt, I don't care really about encrypting the system, but I don't think one can encrypt folders easily.