Best method for backing up macbook air?

Please tell me what would be the best method to back up my macbook air?

Yes, this i know, Since I have nearly 100 HD laying around, when I clone my system, its bootable, and the second HD becomes the defacto recovery
at the very worst, you can reload the OS online.       But yes, youre correct, but Superduper is FREE, and CCC surely isnt.
as a "clone it all" option, Superduper is great for HD upgrading and emergency backup for laptop HD.  Since laptops HD are prone to failure (not SSD as in the AIR), keeping a cloned backup is a great idea.
But yes, your right, ......I consider a second cloned HD a "recovery HD", ......but not in the sense you imply.......  
An ERROR that both superduper and CCC make in a CLONE, however, is they write the BOOT FILES in a diff. location, so if you install the replacement HD after a crash, it will (not 1st time which is always slow) cause slightly slower startup from poweron.......in which case you have to reinstall the OS on the CLONE...........that IS if you care that much about a few extra seconds boot time on your replacement cloned HD.
But LION and MOUNTAIN LION systems *also* have "Network Recovery", which can download and install without a recovery volume.

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