How to restore my recovery partition on Lion 10.7.5

Hi all,

last week i installed the latestsecurity update for Lion and ended up with a broken system.

I run into the dock magnification lag as well as some other problems.

I lost my printer (Lion told me that it was offline) and the web interface of my FritzBox was unreachable (but i still had an uplink).

So decided to boot into recovery mode to restore my system from my Time Machine backup.

I selected the wrong backup set and needed to repeat the whole procedure.

At the second try my Mac booted from the network - but the hidden recovery partition was gone.

Output from diskutil:

sh-3.2# diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 GB disk1

1: Microsoft Basic Data MYSD2GB 2.0 GB disk1s1

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS Backup 500.1 GB disk2s2

3: Apple_HFS Stuff 499.6 GB disk2s3

sh-3.2#

I figured out that the recovery worked as designed - i could recover my system.

But would like to have my hidden recovery partition back.

I found this: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19145/how-can-i-create-or-recreate-a-li on-recovery-partition

But i'm a bit unsure if this is the right way because this are some operations that really one don't like do very much... :-(

And i also couldn't reinstall my printer (Canon pixma ip5200) as USB printer.

I attached it to my router via USB and installed a software RIP (PrintFab2) and with the driver that comes with it my printer works again.

But N.B.: before the recovery (and many updates) it worked via USB with the driver that came with Lion.

That you very much in advance for any hint.

Best regards, Peter