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 ...

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 ...

Continuing our previous coverage of Retrospect 5 (with one item on Retrospect 4): Duplicate backup not bootable? Using the Duplicate option in the Preview version of Retrospect 5, we backed up an ...

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 ...

When I left off last week, our ailing Macintosh iBook G4 was suffering from what I strongly suspected was a dying hard drive. The words “strongly suspected” meant I had to back up the iBook and try to ...

Do you have a backup of your Mac? No? Get one. Wait, did I say one? I meant three. But one is a good place to start. Everyone knows they are supposed to back up, but maybe you aren't sure what you ...

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 ...

An Apple File System bug has been discovered in macOS 10.15.5 Catalina that can prevent users from making a bootable clone of their system drive, according to the creator of Carbon Copy Cloner. In a ...

The developer of SuperDuper! says what they think is a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 has inadvertently broken how the app can create bootable backups — however, it may not be accidental at all. It's some ...

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 ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...