Can I create bootable clone of my Mac OS X

Yes, you can create clone of your operating system, whatsoever OS it may be. Here, for Mac users, though time machine is a useful and easy to use backup utility but it doesn't help you to create bootable clone of Mac drive. It is recommended by experts to have bootable clone of your Mac so that you can boot your system when it fails to boot. People lose their precious data sometimes due to accidental deletion or due to OS crash or corrupt.

It can also happen sometimes during up-gradation of Mac, partitioning and formating a drive etc.

Firstly, it is quite obvious that creating clone of Mac drive is a need to reduce chances of permanent data loss. Secondly, creating clone of Mac OS is easy and inexpensive process.

Before upgrading Mac OS, make sure to take full backup of your machine.

Now, I would like to introduce the shareware Stellar Drive Clone for creating bootable clone and provide you facility of cloning or imaging any volume including boot volume. Stellar Drive Clone also provides you facility to create bootable dvd and minimal system drive. Both these allows you to startup machine in case it fails to boot as described below.

While making bootable dvd, stellar drive clone utility is included by default in which you can add different applications depending on the space left in it. On the other hand creating Minimal system drive helps you to boot machine in case of any trouble situation. “Minimal system” includes minimum files that are required to boot your system. Like most needed system files, default applications, default folders and preferences.

There’s a lot of things that you should consider while taking backup of your data but in my view the best approach is – “choosing best tool for backup”. So, I suggest you to install this tool and make clone of your drive in two steps.

It also allows you to create bootable disk in few steps. This software do its job in few clicks without demanding any expertise. You will definitely enjoy its interactive and easy to use interface.

For more details: http://www.stellarclonedrive.com/