![]() ![]() The iMac will boot from any bay in either enclosure usingĮach SSD show up in system preferences as a drive to boot from.Įach Drive will boot when selected as the boot drive in System prefs.Įach drive shows as bootable and will boot when selected when holding down Move both Cloned drives to every bay in the enclosure/ I think similar happens with CrashPlan.Ĭlick to expand.My System: 2017 iMac OSX 10.12.1, 1tb intern ssd.Ģ External Akitio Quad X 4 bay enclosures PS Booting from a clone can cause a lot of re-signing in to things and if you use BackBlaze it may "freeze your backup", and it stays frozen even after rebooting back to internal. The CCC recommended (hence default) way is to clone the Data volume only and either make it bootable when needed by installing a System volume onto it or using it to migrate from after an erase and install. Between macOS updates both CCC and SD will update the Data volume normally. The System volume cannot be updated, so when there is a macOS update you have to erase and start again. To use ASR you have to erase the whole destination first. The only way of cloning the System volume is with the Apple ASR (Apple System Restore) process which is used by both. The principle limitation is because a bootable clone obviously requires both the System and Data volume to be cloned. I have tested both this past week on M1 MBAs with Monterey. Details here:Īs you can see the two companies are taking very different approaches to the same task with basically the same tools. Superduper! Has the same limitations and can also make a bootable clone. You have to use the LBBA (Legacy Bootable Backup Assistant) in CCC to make a bootable clone. ![]() Note that bootable clones are no longer the default method for CCC and are not recommended because of the limitations mentioned. ![]()
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