To restart an Intel Mac in Recovery Mode, hold Command+R when the computer restarts. This article teaches you how to restart ...

Mac utility app SuperDuper! will no longer always fail to make a bootable backup because of a bug in macOS Sequoia — but Apple's fix doesn't remove all problems. Nanian thought the change might have ...

Whether it's a MacBook Pro that's always out on the road with you, or a Mac Studio that gets left in an office, your Mac holds critical data and you've got to back it up. Apple works very hard to make ...

The latest installment in the story of how bootable Mac backups will eventually disappear started with a blog post by Shirt Pocket Software’s Dave Nanian. In it, he explained why SuperDuper could no ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

Apple's latest macOS Sequoia 15.3 update appears to have resolved a bug that prevented popular backup utility SuperDuper from creating bootable backups, according to developer Dave Nanian. The fix ...

Is there any reason to try to have a bootable clone for backup purposes these days? Or if the internal SSD fails, is the computer likely to be unbootable anyway? Drives are backed up with 3-2-1 ...

More on bootable backups Jonathan Simon notes yet another web page with a Unix-based method for making a bootable backup of a Mac OS X system (see previous coverage). It's a shell script called simply ...

There’s admirable antivirus protection, good copy speeds, and a boot module creation tool that works as well as you could want, but clunky interface elements, some errors while creating archives to ...