Disk utility restore put recovery hd over mac hd after first properly copying mac hd
I am trying to make a redundant backup image of my harddrive using something OTHER than Time Machine. I booted to recovery because you image from a disk you are booted from. The restore took 2 hours, and indicated the entire time in disk utility that it was restoring "Mac HD" to a similarly sized partition on my external hard drive. When it was done, the external had a copy of my recovery drive on it. That's crazy talk.
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iMac 24" used at work