iMac Startup/boot disk USB drive?

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Hello,

With my new iMac 2019, am I right in saying that I don’t need to create a startup/boot disk USB drive (like on windows) because iMacs have this built in, so the only system thing I need to have interms of backup is to have a time machine active on an external hdd drive?

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You don’t need to creat a USB boot disk. Macs have a recovery partition that you never normally see on the internal drive. If there is none (as in if you change the hard disk) they will suck it down off the Internet, subject to there being a connection.

Time Machine is good but not strictly a back up.
 
sphexx said:
You don’t need to creat a USB boot disk. Macs have a recovery partition that you never normally see on the internal drive. If there is none (as in if you change the hard disk) they will suck it down off the Internet, subject to there being a connection.

Time Machine is good but not strictly a back up.
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Ahh brilliant & in regards to TM is it sufficient to use then or am I better doing a different kind of back up? The only thing I am using the Mac for is for photos & as it stands I was going to have time machine running on one external hdd & then my photos/catalog copying/backing up to another external hdd always attached, then a clone to a second external hdd that I will attach say once a week & then also backup the photos to amazon photos cloud? Would this be sufficient?
 
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Joe94 said:
Ahh brilliant & in regards to TM is it sufficient to use then or am I better doing a different kind of back up? The only thing I am using the Mac for is for photos & as it stands I was going to have time machine running on one external hdd & then my photos/catalog copying/backing up to another external hdd always attached, then a clone to a second external hdd that I will attach say once a week & then also backup the photos to amazon photos cloud? Would this be sufficient?
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Sounds like you have covered it. There are threads on TP about back ups.
 
sphexx said:
Sounds like you have covered it. There are threads on TP about back ups.
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Thank you! Yeah I have seen a number of threads here and different places but one thing that is confusing me a bit is Time Machine vs Clone... it seem some people use 3rd party software to fully clone there drives instead which also creates boot things and direct copies... I just want to keep things simple & was under the understanding that if you simply attach an ext. drive activate time machine then you would be good because Apple covers the rest? Any help on this would be gretaful? Am I reading into things too much (I think I might be)? And are some just over cautious?
Thanks again for your help with this :)
 
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