This article by TJ Luoma on TUAW starts with: “Since it doesn’t come with an optical drive, giving MacBook Air buyers a DVD of the operating system wouldn’t be very helpful. That’s why Apple’s lightest laptop comes with the USB Software Reinstall Drive — a very small white USB drive.”
Of course a single file/drive doesn’t provide a back up. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to copy the USB Drive so that you have a backup? Well, this article shows just how to do it.
The author said he “tried ‘cloning’ the Reinstall Drive using SuperDuper!, which completed without error, but after it was done, my MacBook Air would not boot with the new USB drive.”
He couldn’t find a way in Disk Utility to duplicate the drive so that it would boot the computer.
He decided to try backing up the drive using Terminal like he had previously backed up OS X DVDs.
The balance of the article describes how to “Duplicating a CD or DVD the Unix way”
Read the full article here: http://i.tuaw.com/2011/07/14/make-a-backup-copy-of-the-macbook-air-usb-software-reinstall-dri/
