Disk image of system drive

I have a new MBP and want to create a disk image of the initial disk, just in case I get it messed up later, so I can start over.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 20, 2023 9:44 AM

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Dec 22, 2023 6:27 AM in response to [Ron]

CCC can clone a boot volume as a .dmg. And that .dmg can then be cloned to a bootable volume. I use that to archive smallish clean test volumes (takes only a few minutes with 20 GB volumes).

But for larger volumes I clone to external volumes.

Owl-53

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Dec 22, 2023 1:34 AM in response to [Ron]

Yet another vote fro Carbon Copy Cloner

Do read from the Developer regarding a Legacy Bootable Clone

Creating legacy bootable copies of macOS (Big Sur and later)

VikingOSX

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Dec 20, 2023 1:49 PM in response to [Ron]

Use either the built-in Time Machine to backup the entire Mac to an external drive, or use a third-party cloning tool such as Carbon Copy Cloner to an external drive (which will be bootable).

BDAqua

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Dec 21, 2023 3:30 PM in response to [Ron]

Another vote for CCC.:)

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