THE HOLY GRAIL of my workflow is the TrustWorthiness of my BackUps.

I could hardly care less about my working hard drive or if my client screws up her install. In fact, I can have total hard drive failure and be right back to work in about an hour — on a completely tuned, TrustWorthy install.

I regard my bootable BackUps as 100-percent TrustWorthy.
To get to that point:

• I ZeroWrite the target hard drive (to give me 100–percent confidence in the drive).
• Install the OS...the applications...run all the updaters...tune all the preferences, and then:
• BACKiTUP CLONEiTto CDR, DVD, hard drive.

This is how I build my BackUps, my Cloned boot drives.

This From–The–Ground–Up method provides me:

• One hundred–percent confidence in a DEADLINE environment.