A clone is a bootable backup of your Mac’s hard drive that provides redundancy for both your data and the Macintosh Operating System. Cloning is easy to do and is complementary to other backup methods ...

I'm in the process of replacing the HDD of my partner's laptop with an SDD. I've made the clone but it will be a few more weeks before she'll allow me to open the laptop and swap a few things out, so ...

Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

The best cloning software is a service which makes a replica or 'clone' of your hard drive. There are plenty of reasons you might want to do this, like if you need to distribute a drive configuration ...

Good backups are essential for every Mac user. Tools such as Apple’s Time Machine, included as part of OS X, make it easy to store multiple versions of every file from your computer on an external ...

Cloning a hard drive is when you create an exact copy of one drive's contents to another, which has been made quite simple with the availability of high-capacity external drives, simple connectivity, ...

Tony Padgett uses FileVault in macOS to encrypt his startup volume. However, it occurred to him that because he routinely updates a bootable clone of that drive, his clone remains unprotected at rest.

If you are wondering why copying files or a Bootable USB drive won’t work, then the answer is that copying will not make the drive bootable. Windows the computer starts, it looks for an entry point ...

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 ...

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 ...