You’ll need to set up an account with Acronis to use its, but you can give Cyber Protect Home Office a spin without signing up for its paid-for service or even providing payment details, by using the free trial to back up to a local drive or network disk. The latter makes it good option for anyone with a NAS that doesn’t support Apple’s Time Machine. It supports backing up your data to a local disk, Acronis’ own cloud-based service, or a network-attached storage device. Our reviews of tools here that create bootable clones should be read in that context.Īcronis is a name well known in the Windows world, but less so to Mac users.Ĭyber Protect Home Office is the new name for Acronis True Image and is its personal backup solution. There is no single solution to the problem, currently. As one developer told us, “it’s a bit hit and miss”. The net result is that, depending on which version of macOS you’re running and whether you have an Intel or Apple silicon Mac, bootable clones don’t always work. That means that the old way of creating bootable clones no longer works and developers have had to find ways to work with and around Apple’s new way of doing things. Copies of the Signed System Volume are not bootable without a cryptographic seal applied by Apple. One example of this is the introduction of the Signed System Volume in Big Sur. One of the consequences of those changes is that is harder for third-party applications that need deep access to the system to work. However, over the last few versions of macOS Apple has been making changes to make it more secure. Some apps are focused on creating clones of your hard drive and offer incremental backup as an extra feature. Apple’s own Time Machine, which is included with macOS, is an example of this kind of solution. I wonder if Apple will do the same for the professional silicon Macs when they arrive.Many options are focused solely on making backing up your Mac regularly as easy as as possible. That is good. Long ago I used to work in defence electronics, and even then electronics built to defence standards would fail, I used to repair failures when returned. Since the M1 Mac's have been released I have only seen 2 for repair, both logic board issues. I can only recollect seeing 1 or 2 2016 13" models with failed integrated storage. Some 13" models had a new type of SSD though. Most MBP's since 2016 have integrated storage. Removable SSD's in the older MacBook Airs have also had issues, but now technology has moved on. They can take an extended time to display the image of the usual flashing folder. I've seen a fair few of the 2015 models (now a vintage product) with failed storage. First was the 2015 12" Retina MacBook, followed by the 20 models. There has been a move since 2015 to integrate Apple computers storage into the logic board. However, this link describe how things may not be as bad as they seem. I was thinking about easily replaceable - it Is soldered to the logic board so apparently can be done but not by ordinary geeks it seems. Just done a bit of reading and realise I was wrong about the storage being replaceable on M1 Macs. Two backups using differing technologies seems more fault tolerant? Also CCC backups are more accessible on other systems (Linux, Windows) than TM "bundles". I suppose I lean toward the second option. I'm a firm believer in having 2 backups so this leads me to a question - Which to use?ġ x TM backup (on site) + 1 x TM backup (off-site)ġ x TM backup (on site) + 1 x CCC (off-site) This article from CCC gives more details.Īlthough slightly more complex, I'm quite happy to recover a system (if needed) by installing a fresh copy of macOS from a bootable installer disk - created as per ) and then restore my data and settings (if also needed) from my TM backup, or a non-bootable CCC clone using the migration assistant I'm considering updating to Big Sur, but notice that Bootable backups are no longer recommended with Big Sur, and in particular with M1 Macs, and CCC 6 no longer makes bootable backups by default. A Time Machine (TM) backup, and a bootable Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) backup. I've always tended to have 2 backups of my Mac stuff.
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