New to making (local) backups on macOS; where to start / what to do?

[rob]

@rob

I also want to make sure that these backups are encrypted.

It looks like SuperDuper backups are/were not encrypted (by default, without manual actions)

Cloning an encrypted drive - Shirt Pocket Discussions

Neither were those of CarbonCopy Cloner 4:

Working with FileVault Encryption - Bombich Software

But CCC does seem to support it by now?

The Disk Center

Does anyone know whether SuperDuper! supports this (better) by now as well?

(So far I have been using the free version of SuperDuper! and did not find related settings; I might start a CCC trial now)

[rob]

@rob

Will probably use the trial next week to do some experiments.

I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner 7 for a couple of days now. It seems to be more similar to how I used Macrium Reflect on my PC than SuperDuper!, so this might be the backup tool for me, going forward.

[rob]

I decided to go with this:

• Purchased Carbon CopyCloner 7, which automatically makes an encrypted backup from my Mac’s entire internal SSD to the external SSD, whenever I attach that external SSD.
• Wrote a script using rclone to back up selected files unencrypted to OneDrive.

[jec0047]

@rob

Does SuperDuper! indeed not make incremental backups?

SuperDuper does make incremental backups, encrypted or not. The process for creating the first encrypted is a bit unintuitive though. I don’t know if the same is true for CCC.