was told Time Machine makes a bootable cloned image

[Talarspeed]

I finally get to open my first iMac in a few days and the excitement is killing me. So I decided to sign up for one of the workshops at the local Apple store.

The girl told the group that Time Machine would make a perfect mirrored image of the hard drive in case of catastrophic failure. I asked her if this image was a boot-able clone and she said yes.

From reading posts here I gathered that it didn't do this, but you needed SuperDuper or Carbon Copy.

Was she wrong?

 

[Eraserhead]

She's wrong. Time Machine does backup your data and you can restore from it onto a new machine - however it isn't bootable.

 

[mattyb240]

Perhaps she got confused with booting from the OSX Disk and then restoring from time machine from there.

 

[maflynn]

Its not a cloned image, like how Carbon Copy Clones a drive but rather the data is backed up hourly. The results are nearly the same but its not a cloned image.