- CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER MAC OS
- CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER INSTALL
- CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER UPDATE
- CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER UPGRADE
CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER UPGRADE
Personally although I have had TechTool Pro since its inception, I haven't needed or used it in three or four years and have no intention of paying for an upgrade for Big Sur. Tech Tool Pro works on Big Sur but it has yet to be certified and there are functions that are not supported on APFS drives (and are generally un-needed on SSDs).NOTE: when new applications are included in a data volume clone, they will be certified the next time you boot that clone which can be time consuming and annoying.
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CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER INSTALL
The work around is, and will likely remain for some time, maybe permanently, to install Big Sur on the target volume using the Recovery Drive and then cloning the Data volume to that drive. Copying or cloning that snapshot to another drive breaks the seal and renders the image unbootable. The Data Volume can be cloned, but the actual bootable volume is a sealed and encyrypted APFS snapshot created by the Big Sur installer. There is a dandy one in Catalina, although SuperDuper chose not to use it, but security changes in Big Sur broke it.
CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER MAC OS
But "No Problemo", as Arnie says, as the first few releases of a new mac OS contain a good amount of bugs, and Catalina is working fine for me. And given past history, Tech Tool Pro will be the last. That has been the case in the past, and I would not expect it to change.įor myself, there are 4 critical applications that need to be compatible before I move from Catalina to Big Sur: SuperDuper!, Onyx, LibreOffice, and Tech Tool Pro.
CARBON COPY CLONER VS SUPERDUPER UPDATE
So, I expect it to be compatible whenever Dave gets an update ready. I have not heard that there will not be an update to SuperDuper! (I use it too) for Big Sur compatibility. There are a number of applications that are not yet compatible with Big Sur. To be more precise only the data volume can be cloned and that is not bootable and you cannot clone a data volume onto a bootable Mac OS 11 drive and still have it bootable. Mac OS 11 (Big Sur) will be rolling out very shortly and, at least at this juncture, CANNOT BE CLONED using SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner or any other available product, it can only be installed. You really want soemthing like this or this to get resonable boot times.Īlso, consider this in your plans.
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Note too that flash drives are notoriously slow regardless of the interface. Thunderbolt 3 is twice as fast at USB 3.1 Gen 2 (also called USB 3.2) and four times faster than USB 3, which pretty well sums up the pros and cons of each. I am not holding my breath waiting for that to appear. Looking at this in total, it appears that implementing any "cloning" ability in Big Sur may have to include installing the boot volume using the MacOS installer, or at least portions thereof. Absorb all of this and you begin to get the full picture of what this all about, how it fits together, and how, through the actions of "firmlinks" the system can contain elements from both the data and system volumes and reaches a zenith in the boot volume in Big Sur which is essentially a "virtual" construct".
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Working with APFS Volume Groups from the Carbon Copy Cloner Knowledge Base explains the underlying APFS structures that are enabling the new OS architectures and if you scroll down to the section on Finder shenanigans with the Applications folder you will find an explanation of how and why the file count varies.īoot Volume Layouts and Layout of the Catalina Boot Volume Group (both from The Eclectic Light Company) help explain what you are seeing in Catalina as well as answering some of the questions about why there is a big cloning issue in Big Sur and this Apple Developer News article explains the rationale behind the changes in Big Sur.