Cloning my Lion Drive questions

I decided to clone my drive after upgrading to Lion weeks ago on my iMac mid 2011, just in case my Hard Drive should
break down. My Mid 2011 came with Snow Leopard.  So, eventually, would I restore back from clone (which, if a true clone, would have
the two partitions already on it).  Or, is it useless doing a Lion clone? ie I would hope that it is a simple as how I used to do my SL clones.
Hopefully,, I don't have to go and reload SL from disk, update to Lion,, and do backup from TM as my only option. Thanks

Stoker wrote:
CorkyO2 wrote:
FWIW,
Creating the clone by partitioning the destination drive with one partition and then using the restore feature in Disk Utility while booted from the Lion installer on the flash drive (and subsequent restoring of the clone back to the original machine) always results in the inclusion of both the Recovery HD partition and the OS X Lion partition.
I have tested and retested this when booting from all three versions of a Lion install disc (flash drive, external HD and a DVD). All work exactly the same. The clone (in my case) is kept on an external HD and I connect using FW800. Works every time.
Note - I don't use CCC or SuperDuper, so can't comment on those.
Ok,,, so I gather that my first hypothesis can't be carried out  ie; just cloning my Lion clone back to internal formatted drive, because it will not create the Lion Recovery partition.. So,, I will try Corky02 method. I already had made a usb Lion Recovery (think I will also do a DVD one also).  So,, please correct if I am mistaken.  I use the usb Lion recovery to apply to my HD. By doing that, it installs 2 partitions on my Drive, one Clean Lion OS,, plus one Recovery partition.. Then, I can go in to boot mode,, look for Macintosh HD,, and replace that with my clone? Correct?
Then it sounds like CCC and Superduper have lost some of their effectiveness . 
If you boot from the Lion install disc (USB flash drive or DVD), you would then use the Utilities/Disk Utility to partition the drive you want to install OS X Lion on (I always name mine 'Macintosh HD', but you can use a different name if you wish). After partitioning, you quit Disk Utility and are returned to the OS X Lion installer - which you would run to install Lion. The end result is a clean install of Lion which also includes the small partition named 'Recovery HD'.
Note - the 'Recovery HD' is only visible when booting to the boot option screen by pressing 'Option' during start up (or when viewed by some other utilities like iDefrag).
Once you have your OS X Lion set-up with whatever you want included in the clone (e.g., applications, music, pictures, files, etc.). You can then boot from the USB flash drive or DVD to create your clone. I create the clone with the following steps:
1 - Connect external drive which is to be the destination for clone image.
2 - Boot from OS X Lion install disc.
3 - Invoke Disk Utility (Utilities menu > Disk Utility).
4 - Partition the external drive with 1 partition for destination of clone.
5 - Click the 'Restore' tab in Disk utility.
6 - Select the partition I want to clone (in my case the 'Macintosh HD' partition) - which automatically populates the 'Source' field in Restore dialog.
7 - Drag the partition on the external drive to the 'Destination' field.
8 - Click 'Restore' and confirm 'Erase' in pop-up dialog.
The above steps assume there is only 1 partition on the destination drive. This will result in a clone which includes both the OS X Lion partition and the (hidden) Recovery HD partition.
You can then restore both partitions by first creating '1 Partition' on your intended destination drive (typically the internal drive) and using the 'Restore' tab to set the clone as the source and the internal as the destination, which will result in a OS X Lion partition (including all applications, music, pictures, files, etc., that you included in the clone) and the (hidden) Recovery HD partition.
Note - if you do not first partition the destination drive before attempting to restore the clone, I am not sure that you will end up with a functioning system. I say this because I have not tested that, so please only use my steps if you intend to partition with only 1 partition when trying to either create the original clone or restore the system from said clone.
I hope that was clear.

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