|  |  | # Features of CCC specific to Lion and greater

CCC offers several features that support new functionality (or lost functionality) in Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion.

## Create a Mac OS X Installer Disk

Starting with Mac OS X Lion, Apple no longer distributes the Mac OS X Installer on a DVD. The installer is instead made available via the Mac App Store for immediate download. While this is wonderful for immediately getting your copy of Mac OS X, the logistics of reinstalling Mac OS X become a bit more complicated. While restoring from a CCC bootable backup gets you back to productivity much faster and with less hassle, there are times when you may genuinely need to reinstall Lion.

If you bought a Mac that came with Lion, Apple offers a service called "Internet Recovery" that allows you to reinstall Lion via the Internet. If you downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store, though, you're kind of stuck if your hard drive fails and you don't have a CCC bootable backup.

If you find yourself longing for a physical installer disk, your search is over. Carbon Copy Cloner can clone your Mac App Store Lion or Mountain Lion Installer to a physical volume (e.g. a USB thumb drive, Firewire drive, etc.). If the "Install Mac OS X Lion" or "Install OS X Mountain Lion" application is present in your Applications folder, simply choose "Create a (Mountain) Lion Installer..." from CCC's Source menu, choose a locally-attached, HFS+ formatted volume from the Destination menu, then click the Clone button. In just a few minutes, you'll have a bootable Mac OS X Installer disk for posterity.

The Mac OS X Installer will delete the "Install Mac OS X Lion" (or Mountain Lion) installer application while it is being installed. We recommend that you copy this installer to another disk or move it to another folder if you want to retain it for posterity. If you don't, you'll have to download it again should you want to reinstall Mac OS X.

## Clone Apple's Recovery HD

Carbon Copy Cloner offers full support for cloning the Apple-proprietary "Recovery HD" volume. More detail on this feature is offered in the Cloning Apple's Recovery HD partition section of the documentation.

## Leveraging Full Disk Encryption ("File Vault 2")

Apple introduced a new "Full Disk Encryption" feature to Mac OS X Lion, and that functionality is exposed for Lion and Mountain Lion users in CCC's Disk Center. To learn more about securing the contents of your backup volume, see the Full Disk Encryption section of the documentation.