To improve system security your M1 Mac won't boot if the internal solid state drive (SSD) completely dies. While there's been very little information released by Apple on their SSD architecture -- I'm ...

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 ...

Is it time to upgrade to macOS 11 Big Sur? I’ll write more about that soon. However, there is one general concern that has caused us to hesitate to recommend upgrading. That’s the complexity of ...

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 ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetJapan, Inc., publisher of disk imaging backup, system disaster recovery, and virtualization software, announces the release of HyperBoot™. A solution for booting ActiveImage ...

Apple has gone forward and has not looked back ever since, with the macOS 11 Big Sur containing all the new features and functions that Mac computers give the public. That includes everything that is ...

Apple's latest macOS Sequoia 15.2 update has introduced a critical bug that prevents the popular backup utility SuperDuper from creating bootable backups, according to the app's chief developer, Shirt ...

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 ...

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When you don’t back up your data, you choose to live life on the edge. A hefty power surge, faulty software update, rampant virus, or Godzilla-like toddler—these are just a few of the things that ...

Back in June, I covered MCE’s OptiBay Hard Drive, a unique upgrade for MacBooks and MacBook Pros that replaces the laptop’s optical drive with a second internal hard drive. (You use an external ...

The other common alternative is to create a bootable (mirrored or cloned) copy of an existing bootable drive using backup software (such as Retrospect, DataBackup or SuperDuper!). In either case, you ...