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Re: cloning and recovery drives

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Salut John

In article <le2skq$hkn$1@dont-email.me>,
 "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> wrote:

> On 2/19/14, 12:53 AM, Andreas Rutishauser wrote:
> > In article <le084a$2p1$1@dont-email.me>,
> >   "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> wrote:

> > Or Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant
> > <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US>

> I just wonder if there's anything unique about the Recovery partition 
> between different machines.  Is there anything different in the Macbook 
> Air 11", 13" or a 17" Macbook Pro.  If they're all the same couldn't one 
> just clone the Recovery partition from any system (or from 
> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 ).  Though 
> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 may be suggesting that there is some 
> sort of link between a specific system and it's Recovery partition.

I think the contents of the Recovery Partitions are not specific per 
model (they are different per OS (Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks)) 
> 
>  From http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
> Note: In order to create an external OS X  Recovery using the OS X 
> Recovery Assistant, the Mac must have an existing Recovery HD.
> 
> Why?  If the Recovery Drive is just some sort of bare bones boot device 
> what's the difference? Or perhaps that's just a requirement for using 
> Apple's Recovery Assistant.  Or maybe the version of the OS makes a 
> difference.

Interpreting the note you are citing, I think the Recovery Disk 
Assisitant needs the contents of the Recovery HD to produce a Recovery 
HD on the external volume.

Note from the article I linked;
If the system was upgraded to OS X Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks 
purchased from the App Store, the external recovery drive can be used 
with other similarly-upgraded systems.

So I think you can use that Recovery HD with different Macs.

> So using Alan Ralph's
>   defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1 terminal
> command I'm able to see the Recovery partition in DU and I was thinking 
> of just cloning that (using DU) to a partition on which the cloned copy 
> of the system resides but the Apple kb urls have left me confused.
> 
> Perhaps it'd be easier just to put a Recovery Drive on a USB stick but, 
> again, would I need a separate USB stick for each computer's Recovery 
> Drive or is the Recovery Drive the same for all machines that can boot 
> from a Recovery Drive?
> 
> Dunno.  Maybe I should just give it a whirl and see what happens.

Feedback here would be appreciated ;-)

Cheers
Andreas

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cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-18 13:17 -0500
  Re: cloning and recovery drives nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-18 13:28 -0500
    Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-18 18:19 -0500
  Re: cloning and recovery drives Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 20:14 +0000
  Re: cloning and recovery drives Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-02-19 06:53 +0100
    Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-19 13:20 -0500
      Re: cloning and recovery drives Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-02-20 06:57 +0100
        Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-21 00:57 +1300
          Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-20 12:15 -0500
            Re: cloning and recovery drives Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 17:49 +0000
            Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-21 14:43 +1300
              Re: cloning and recovery drives dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-02-21 19:48 +0000
                Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-22 12:57 +1300
                Re: cloning and recovery drives dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-02-22 09:36 +0000
        Re: cloning and recovery drives William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-21 08:51 -0800
          Re: cloning and recovery drives Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-21 22:41 +0000
          Re: cloning and recovery drives John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-02-23 00:19 -0500
            Re: cloning and recovery drives William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-23 06:32 -0800
            Re: cloning and recovery drives Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-23 14:16 -0500

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