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The Recovery Partition is about 650MB total (but this is a compressed volume and expands to about twice that when you boot from it). Have you done a Time Machine backup of your system yet? Did you do it to another external disk? If you don't care about user files, a virgin Maverick's installation takes about 15GB (I'm guessing as I don't run Mavericks - 15GB is based on Yosemite virgin install I recently did), so you don't need much for it (this size estimate DOES NOT include /Users folder which can be quite large nor does it include any applications not a normal part of OS X which can also be quite large). The above are different ways to do what the "clone" type programs that Eric Root talks about - the clone products are fine for duplicating the entire disk, but I'm not very familiar about their details (don't know if they backup all partitions, including the special hidden ones, or ?) - but these clone backups won't be much help to restore individual files (easily that is) like Time Machine can (that's my opinion anyway), but are better at restoring entire disks or volumes I think. OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support You might want to check out and understand these posts before proceeding:
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Can you perhaps rephrase it? Are you asking how to backup a Recovery partition or how to create one or ? Do you know how to backup the Mavericks partition?