![]() If you have any issues, I advise you, to contact Dave at the shirtpocket site (you might have to buy a license, to qualify for his email support). I have no issues whatsoever with SuperDuper or the backups it creates. I bought the full license immediately after trying once. So, let's repeat that with SuperDuper 3.2 B2 (There's a download link at the bottom of this post.) Remember - SuperDuper 3.2 runs with macOS 10.10 and later, and has improvements for every user, not just those using Mojave. I run SuperDuper as my main backup solution since Leopard. Big Sur is a big transition for a disk cloning utility M1 Macs are an even bigger one. We literally had no bugs reported against it, which was pretty gratifying. Special Offer: Use the SUPERDUPER coupon code and get your order delivered for FREE. The backup app runs natively on M1-based Macs and Intel-based Macs, supports pre-encrypted Smart Updates on Big Sur and later, improves Status View. SuperDuper is one of my all-time favorite and most-trusted Mac utilities. After a long and winding road following its last release in November 2019, Shirt Pocket has released SuperDuper 3.5 with full support for macOS 11 Big Sur and macOS 12 Monterey. Then if you want to restore, do a fresh OS install on the internal boot drive and restore your data from the external drive where you cloned your Data partition. ![]() Hard to believe, but I have just booted from a backup of an M1 Mac. Use an older version of SuperDuper that will copy just the Data partition of your M1 Mac’s boot volume - that’s everything you really need to be backed up. More testing and configuring ensued and, as of late Saturday night (livin' the high life here at Shirt Pocket HQ), we were finally able to boot from a SuperDuper copy of an M1 MacBook Pro, made to a regular USB SSD, without any post-copy OS install. Limited, often fail, and produce inscrutable and undocumentedĮverything’s a tradeoff, and with the M1 Macs, Apple has given usĪn amazing new platform, while taking away some of the things that The contents of their internal drive even when booting externally.Īnd the tools required to make bootable copies of Intel Macs are Metal recovery on an M1 Mac isn’t possible, since they depend on M1 Macs can’t be copied in a way that makes them bootable. It seems clear that the future of bootable backups is unclear. Should I be concerned, or maybe redo the clone? I checked the log carefully and there was no indication of any errors of any sort, everything in the log indicated that the clone worked properly.A SuperDuper Workaround for Big Sur and M1 Macs (2) After the clone (under Monterey) was done, in the Sidebar the clone showed up as an ejectable external drive with the same name as the source (Macintosh HD) but Disk Utility showed the correct clone name. I am betting that I will be able to use V3.3 with Mojave. As it is, when Shirt Pocket releases a new version, it is (typically) still compatible with at least the prior version of the Mac OS, and in most instances, with a number of prior versions of the Mac OS. The System Volume was actually about 16 GB and the cloned copy also showed up as 16 GB when viewed in Disk Utility, so the copy looked correct but the log above said it copied the System Volume as 322.95 GB, but that is actually the size of the Data Volume not the System Volume. Sounds encouraging, but I am still going to wait. | 01:58:28 PM | Info | Completed Data Volume replication. | 01:43:44 PM | Info | Replicating Data Volume | 01:43:30 PM | Info | Completed System Volume replication. | 01:42:40 PM | Info | Replicating System Volume | 01:42:39 PM | Info | Validating source.done Shirt Pocket says the newest version of SuperDuper will make it possible to ignore the missing drive errors that can crop up during a scheduled copy, and also makes improvements to the Smart Wake feature that makes sure your back ups happen whether the macOS software is asleep or awake. | 01:42:27 PM | Info | Validating target.done COMMAND => Replicating Macintosh HD to MacBookProClone19Dec2021 ACTION: Copying files from Macintosh HD to MacBookProClone19Dec2021 Then ran SuperDuper with Erase then Copy, which appeared to make a clone that looked correct. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. I erased the target (backup) drive with Disk Utility to make it APFS. SuperDuper 3.7.5 Major Geeks Special Offer: - advertisement - SuperDuper makes backup and recovery simple for macOS users. I read the blog for instructions on clones under Monterey, which is a little different than under Catalina. You can download SuperDuper from the Shirt Pocket site and evaluate most of its. I just upgraded a 2019 Macbook Pro from Catalina to Monterey. Shirt Pocket notes on its Web site that the checkpoint feature even restores iSync data to the way it was.
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