I think the advantage of a bootable backup is that it is there, and you can just...

tunesmith on March 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

I think the advantage of a bootable backup is that it is there, and you can just boot from it (or copy it to an external hard drive if it was on a remote volume). The point is that the backup was already in the right format. I think internet recovery is more about restoring from a time machine backup, which takes forever.

ahknight on March 4, 2014 [–]

Or restore the OS, download Arq, then restore from the Internet, which takes ten forevers. :)