Apple fixes bug that stopped utilities making bootable backups

Apple fixes bug that stopped utilities making bootable backups
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Apple fixes bug that stopped utilities making bootable backups
Author: news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher)
Published: Feb, 03 2025 14:18

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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.

Apple's Time Machine does not, for example, and Carbon Copy Cloner's developer explicitly says that it can no longer make full bootable backups.

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