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Well having read Jimbos post I have to be honest and admit that I prefer having a clone rather than images or whatever to back up to (on a spare drive) .
The thought of spending hours of fiddling around doing this and that - is like trying to undo those dreadful tangles in a fishing line I spent many hours undoing in my youth. So I have a clone of whatever I am doing now sitting on the shelf and back data to an external or another internal which I can easily copy back to the other drive when the time comes.
Now everyone is probably thinking I am quite potty but I do (and have done in the past) intensely dislike losing data such as personal pictures or documents such as short stories, resumes for example when a drive goes belly up. It's another reason I like using Ubuntu as a bootable way of retrieving most data from a dead drive.
Now seeing what Jimbo has posted only reinforces my "comfort zone" in cloning the drive from time to time. The fact that I can slot the clone back in means that within the time it takes I can be back on line and working again albeit with some stuff missing.
Mad perhaps yes - stupid I don't think so:)