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Here's my thinking...
Recently, I had a hard drive beginning to fail (S.M.A.R.T. reporter said "this disk is about to fail") and before the drive failed entirely I wanted to make a bootable backup so I could restore my system if the drive needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, the backup did not complete successfully...it bombed on a particular file...presumably a sector that was failing. And then, yes, the drive needed to be replaced. And, I no longer had a reliable backup from which to restore. So, what I thought might make sense was this: after rebuilding a system (or doing a major system upgrade), I would create an image that could be used in a similar emergency, while also making periodic "normal" backups. That way, I wouldn't end up in the same position.
Does that make sense, or is there a better strategy?
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