![]() Make sure the Scheme is set to GUID Partition Map, otherwise the backup will not be bootable. In the macOS Disk Utility you need to switch the view to Show all devices. Do not just format the existing partition (if any already exists), format the whole drive. Once you plug in the backup SSD, you need to format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I bought another SSD for bootable backups and got to work. I stumbled upon Carbon Copy Cloner a backup tool that offers bootable backups for macOS. This made me realize that image based backups are not ideal for real world problems (you probably screw up your EFI or kexts more often that your SSD dies) and I got looking for some other solution. I then reinstalled Clover checking OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi, booted backed normally and fixed iMessage. This screwed up iMessage (different serial number). I used Clover on my Unibeast flash drive that I keep safe and booted the Hackintosh with it. The problem was that the Clover installer decided not to check OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi by default anymore and this module got deleted.ĭoing a full restore from an image seemed like a waste of time when I just needed to restore one missing file. One time I updated Clover and my Hackintosh did not boot, got stuck on some error message. CloneZilla does not support APFS so it backs it up sector by sector, the resulting image is as big as the SSD and the process is quite slow. When you change the filesystem to APFS, for example when updating to Mojave this is no longer true. This means it only backs up the used space, so the resulting image is not as big as your SSD and the process is fast. Size dependent on the filesystemĬloneZilla works well with HFS+, can detect used and free space. The problem is that requirements change over time, most of the time after problems you did not expect before. I had to remember to boot CloneZilla every week and do the backup, but that was not that much of a problem, it became a weekly ritual. The backups worked fine, when I bought a bigger SSD for macOS and just restored the latest backup image to it and everything went fine. I basically use macOS only for work, so restoring an at most week old backup did not seem like a problem, I would then just do a git pull and all the important data would be back. In case of failure I would be able to restore the image file to the SSD or any new SSD and be back up and running in about 30 minutes. Initial image based backupsįirst I decided to use CloneZilla and backup the whole macOS SSD into an image file on another HDD every week. I tried a few solutions as my requirements changed. With a good backup solution you should be up and running in a few minutes after any of those problems occur. ![]() Any macOS update can theoretically break your installation, you can break you Clover setup by accident or you SSD might just die. The chance of something going wrong is a bit higher than when running macOS on an Apple computer. If you use a Hackintosh you need a good backup solution.
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