> Gotta be honest, I find the idea of a bootable backup disk to be defective Well, having relied on a similar product (Carbon Copy Cloner) to keep a bootable b

> Gotta be honest, I find the idea of a bootable backup disk to be defective Well, having relied on a similar product (Carbon Copy Cloner) to keep a bootable backup in addition to time machine backups for myself and members of my family to reduce MTTR for many years, I find the idea of being unable to trivially recover from a hardware failure in a few minutes to be defective. Any of our clones can be booted on any similar system. On a few occasions people have used borrowed machines until repairs were complete without relying on cloud or internet connectivity. Of course these are all older systems and working while booted from an external drive is definitely a degraded experience akin to driving on a spare tire until you can get to a proper service station.