For some, inability to clone to the internal SSD of an M1 Mac seems disastrous. In reality, it could achieve little, and there are better solutions.
Carbon Copy Cloner
Cloning has been a popular way of creating external bootable disks. Now that CCC 6 can make full clones of disks for M1 Macs, is it a solution?
A summary of the known benefits and current limitations of Time Machine backups to APFS, with links to more detailed accounts.
Until Big Sur started backing up to snapshots on APFS, there was little interest in being able to copy snapshots. Now we realise that we can’t.
Have you checked how much free space is on your startup volume after the last update? Do you wonder where it has all gone?
Looking at what’s involved in updating Big Sur’s new Sealed System Volume shows what’s necessary for successful cloning.
Trying to discover the effective size of a snapshot proves baffling, particularly when the Finder claims it’s almost astronomical.
Updating Big Sur can cause the storage required by the system to double in size. Snapshots appear to be the cause. What’s the solution?
The volume should only be half full, but installers and other software complains there’s insufficient free space. What to do.
Making backups of carefully-selected active folders ever hour using ChronoSync, and with Time Machine.
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