I have a MacBook Air M1 2020. MacOS Ventura 13.0.1 When I try to make a
clone of a system disk to external drive, I always get error 49244
regardless a tool I'm using - "asr" in terminal or Disk Utility. How to
fix it?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.0
That can be attributed to three things;
1 - Using Disk Utilities to make a Clone of the drive will not work - period
2 - Specific to Big Sur macOS 11, Monterey macOS 12, Ventura macOS 13, the Operating System resides in a Sealed and Read Only Volume that can not be opened by the User. Only Apple can do this and usually does some when there is a update or when upGrading to newer versions of macOS
3 - Even the Developer of a Clone Software called Carbon Copy Cloner as mentioned the ASR functionality is a Best Effort basis
Reference below
Yes and the user just provided the requested evidence.
User wrote " When I try to make a
clone of a system disk to external drive, I always get error 49244
regardless a tool I'm using - "asr" in terminal or Disk Utility. "
Phraseology - " User " out of respect to the Owner of this question.
The fact remains - using Disk Utility to Clone the drive may have works years ago in much older versions of OS X or macOS but does not work in Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura
With System 1-9 it was easy to copy a bootable system: just Finder-copy the "System Folder" to another DD floppy (and AFAIR maybe command-double-click the System file to "bless" it?).
But OS X changed all that and I have used Carbon Copy Cloner since its first versions to make bootable clones also on a silicon Mac.
"CCC uses Apple's APFS replication utility, "ASR", to establish an initial bootable clone of your startup disk."
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/frequently-asked-questions-about-ccc-and-macos-11
To be fair and balanced.
Have come across this User Tip specific to ASR and Cloning
Proceed with caution and good sense
link below
How To Clone Your Mac Using ASR
All links are not applicable to my case. My external drive is APFS formatted.
1 - Using Disk Utilities to make a Clone of the drive will not work - period
Why not? Is it has any proofs?
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Error 49244 during using of ASR or Disk Utility
