After 10.7 and the recovery partition, reinstallation is the recommended method - it doesn’t ever carry over correctly or it doesn’t clone with the rest of the drive. It’s better to reinstall since cloning is so unreliable now.
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There are now issues with APFS, but 10.7 is too old for that. 10.13-present is when you introduce the APFS problem.
After 10.7 and the recovery partition, reinstallation is the recommended method - it doesn’t ever carry over correctly or it doesn’t clone with the rest of the drive. It’s better to reinstall since cloning is so unreliable now.