{"id":3363,"date":"2011-10-04T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2011-10-04T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:06:28","slug":"think-ahead-preparing-for-mac-troubleshooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/think-ahead-preparing-for-mac-troubleshooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Ahead: Preparing for Mac Troubleshooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macworld&#8217;s Christopher Breen has written an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/162628\/2011\/10\/lion_repair_kit.html\">Preparing your Lion repair kit<\/a>, discussing the tools you should have handy to resolve eventual problems with your Mac running Lion. Since Lion installs a recovery partition, you can access certain Apple tools by booting from this partition, but Breen points out that other tools are useful to have. <\/p>\n<p>He discusses Apple&#8217;s Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that lets you copy the recovery partition to another drive; he explains how to copy a full Lion installer to another disk, such as a flash drive; and he discusses other disk utilities that are good to have. <\/p>\n<p>But the moral of the story, according to Breen, is that you should have a clone of your startup drive, and a backup of all your data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/internet-security-barrier\/\">Intego Personal Backup, part of Intego Internet Security Barrier X6<\/a>, provides both of these features. You can clone your startup volume &#8211; make a full, bootable copy of it on an external disk, so if your internal drive has a problem, you can start up your Mac from the external disk. 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