Me too. I used to use Linux before and anytime I'd move to a new computer I'd decide whether I should swap the hardware or do df to list devices, then: dd if=/

Me too. I used to use Linux before and anytime I'd move to a new computer I'd decide whether I should swap the hardware or do df to list devices, then: dd if=/dev/a of=/dev/b if I decided to migrate to the new storage device. Either way, I could do it in about 3min and go do something else. When I was back, everything would be ready. And back in the FileVault 1 days, I discovered [almost the hard way] that my machine wasn't backing up properly because I was not logging out my user account (and you had to). Since this experience, I'm always suspicious of Apple's approach to backing up data (and data resilience - admittedly due to some other factors involving weird interactions between iPhoto and Flickr).