![]() I’[ll keep my copy of SD until it won’t launch anymore…but I haven’t actually used it in probably 5 years so upgrading to the Apple Silicon license isn’t worth it…although others mileage certainly can and should vary. That’s when I started looking for something else…started with Sync and tried Chronosync and then found CCCs which just works. His statement was that he was only interested in duplicating entire volumes and had zero interest in expanding the capabilities beyond that. SD had it’s day…but its feature set has not grown or changed much with passing of time…and the author and I had a conversation about making it easier to clone folders some years back. And for cloning folders…CCC is far, far easier to configure and maintain. In addition…I’ve found that for my purposes…backing up sets of folders from one place to another place is a far more flexible backup routine…in addition to TM of course as well as BackBlaze for offsite. I do maintain bootable backup drives…but they get updated by booting from them and updating in System Prefs instead so all that signing, crypto hashing and all just happens. Clone the hidden data volume instead since the whole read only sealed, signed, and delivered boot volume isn’t really needed. You can download SuperDuper v3.3.1 right now and back up and clone your drives for free forever Buy Now US27.95 Buy SuperDuper to unlock scheduling, Smart Update (which saves a lot of time), Sandboxes, scriptingand more You can register right from the application, or simply click to buy it now. ![]() Both will…sort of…produce bootable clones but both rely on the Apple ASR utility which Apple has stated will be deprecated.Ĭloning the data partition on current APFS bootable drives is a lot easier…and I for one have given up on making a bootable clone. I own it as well as CCC…and frankly CCC is much more full featured. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbkĭecent product for what it does…but in these days of it being really hard to actually produce a bootable clone cloning a whole drive isn’t as important as it used to be.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.
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