Parallel use of fcpx and fcp7 in late macbook pro 2011

I am happily running fcpx under Lion, however, have a lot of old projects on fcp7.
I was unable to install fcp7 under lion to the late 2011 macbook pro 17, and this might anyways be a bad idea, as it eats a lot of terabytes on boot volume.
Just want to share my workaraund, as it took quite an effort to figure out:
1) MAKE A BOOTABLE CLONE OF LION BOOT DRIVE ON EXTERNAL FIREWIRE DISK USING SUPERDUPER OR CARBON COPY CLONER.
2) BOOT FROM THE EXTERNAL LION BOOT DRIVE AND PARTITION THE INTERNAL DRIVE ON LION BOOT AND SNOW LEOPARD BOOT
3) CLONE THE LION BACK TO THE LION PARTITION
4) BOOT FROM 10.64 SNOW LEOPARD INSTALLER DISK AND INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD 10.6.4 TO THE SNOW LEOPARD PARTITION OF INTERNAL DRIVE
5) NOW BOOT FROM THE NEW INTERNAL SNOW LEOPARD DISK, AND RUN SNOW LEOPARD 10.6.8 UPDATER
6) INSTALL QUICKTIME 7.6.6 (THE LINK IS SOMEWHERE ON THE APPLE PAGES) IT SPECIFICLY NEEDS TO BE 7.6.6., NOTHING ELSE.
7) INSTALL FCP7 FROM THE ORIGINAL INSTALL DISKS
NOW YOU CAN BOOT FCPX OF LION PARTITION AND FCP7 OF THE SNOW LEOPARD PARTITION, DEPENDING WHAT YOU WANT TO WORK ON.
NOTE THAT THE LEOPARD PARTITION ONLY NEEDS 24 GB OF USED SPACE, IF YOU DONT INSTALL MOTION AND AUDIO CONTENT PARTS OF FCP7.

You dont need lion at all, but you might need an external boot disk for the preparation.
Some resellers have reported cernel panic type problems if trying to install snow leopard directly on a macobook pro IF that macbook pro originally shipped with Lion. They say, there might be a chip preventing non Lion installs.
So, I would just for safety, prepare everything on an external drive, then boot of that exptrenal drive a couple of times to be sure it works, and then clone it over to your internal boot drive.
Anyways, if I put the Snow Leopard as startup drive in system preferencies, I would be able to work only on Snow Leopard environment. Personally, I like having both, as I like studying FCPX's possiblities in projects which permit it.

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HT201250 I use Snow Leopard and tried restore my Macbook pro using Time Machine.

After waiting a considerable time for Time Machine to restore my whole system, applications and files I had problems in that my Macbook Pro would not restart. The Apple logo appeared but then the screen scrolled down and a lot of letters, numbers and symbols appeared - not making any sense, and a box appeared telling me to restart holding down the on button. This I did. However it kept on repeating. In the end I had to reinstall the whole lot. Fortunately I had backed up all my files. I cannot use some of the programs I have because I cannot retrieve them. I do not have a disk with them on to reload because I downloaded them from the net and they are old progs and still did what I wanted. A lot of files I have saved do not open now without the old system and apps.Can anyone come up with an idea?

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Ah that's good to hear, does this still work if TimeMachine updates to reflect the 10.7 drive?
There is no special update. After installing Lion, Time Machine will do a normal "incremental" backup, of the stuff that's new or changed. That will be relatively large and lengthy, of course, since OSX and the default Apple apps will all be backed-up.
But there's nothing else different about the TM drive. It stil contains all the past backups, including older versions of OSX.
In other words if a user upgrades to 10.7 and doesn't like it after a few days/weeks, has TM connected and it updated to relfect 10.7, can the user c boot off the 10.6 disk erase and restore 10.6 from the TM drive?
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You just boot from the Snow Leopard Install disc and do a full system restore. That includes erasing the destination, so it doesn't matter what's on it. Then everything on the backup is restored, including OSX, apps, users, data, settings, etc., just as it was at the time of the backup selected.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14, especially step (g). The sample is a bit fuzzy -- it's a photo, since you can't screenprint there, but note that the last two backups were made on Snow Leopard:
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