>>How does one recreate using the Primary OS?
The same way one created in the first place. The point is,
you're working from a running system from which you can
restore files, edit configurations, etc.
The real point is, how often once set up and tweaked would
one update the backup OS and put it at risk. Then, what
percent of that would result in a rebuildable disaster.
Then how much trouble is that relative to the backup(s),
factoring in all those probablilities.
Put it another way. In my 3 years or so on NT, I have
had to rebuild the primary OS from the ground up twice,
and from lessor disasters another two or three times.
I have rebuilt the backup NT zero times. It simply
never gets updated so it doesn't get clobbered.
Yes, I add a browser update occasionally, but these
are not cumulative.
It's definitely a matter of individual preference, and
my preference is to leave those things I can recover
from straighforwardly to that recovery. Other methods
use thier own resources up. JUST for instance, how many
times have you reported here that your cloned OS of one
kind or another wouldn't boot? Several. I'd rather
play DOOM and rebuild it when the time comes. Besides,
my minimal recovery procedures will restore most
reconfiguration errors without a rebuild anyhow.
It IS the case that backups of backups have rapidly
vanishing returns. Backups of subsidiary operations
(which SOMETIMES function as backups) are a different
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