Bootable Backups with Apple Silicon Macs!

[tjluoma]

SuperDuper has been updated to allow it to create bootable backups, even on Apple Silicon-based Macs.

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I’ve tested this and it works great.

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Previous Discussions

Carbon Copy Cloner’s Blog Post on Bootable Backups

Another, related but also slightly different use case is the anual game of, “What is the new version of macOS going to break for me?” Creating a bootable clone is pretty useful for that.

Making bootable backups on Big Sur with Carbon Copy Cloner

I have two bootable drives using CCC. With Big Sur Apple made a change to what can be written to the system volume of the drive. Basically once the system is installed, nothing else can modify that volume. That’s why there are now two volumes, one with just the name of the drive, and the other with “ - Data” appended to it which is where your apps and files live. CCC is able to create a FRESH clone of a drive, including the system volume. But it can no longer modify that volume on the backup dr…