Newbie question - recovery media

Just got my T420s and made a backup of the system for the first time on an external hard drive using the Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery application.  What is this different to create via ThinkVantage recovery media?  Thank you!

The recovery media will allow you to format, a new hard drive to factory shipped condition with the OS, drivers, and the recovery partition installed.

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