{"id":30029,"date":"2020-09-07T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30029"},"modified":"2020-09-07T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:48:53","slug":"awaiting-superduper-for-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/awaiting-superduper-for-big-sur\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting SuperDuper for Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shirtpocket.com\/blog\/index.php\/shadedgrey\/under_construction\/\">Dave Nanian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.shirtpocket.com\/blog\/index.php\/shadedgrey\/under_construction\/\"><p>At present, it&rsquo;s <strong>not possible<\/strong> to make bootable copies of Big Sur, even with <code>asr<\/code>, Apple&rsquo;s own built-in replication utility. As such, we haven&rsquo;t released a Beta, or even an internal Alpha, because it wouldn&rsquo;t meet our own requirements.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In the meantime, my advice for macOS Betas remains as valid as ever: <strong>do not install a macOS Beta<\/strong> unless you have a <strong>critical business need<\/strong> to do so. These Betas, even when public, are not for general use, and certainly not for anyone who wants a reliable system for day-to-day work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time Machine is itself in beta, and it can&rsquo;t make bootable backups. <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/393\">John Siracusa<\/a> found that installing a Big Sur beta on a <em>different<\/em> drive made his Catalina volume inaccessible, presumably because the beta updated the BridgeOS firmware for his Mac&rsquo;s T2.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/is-macos-becoming-unmaintainable\/\">Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Nanian: At present, it&rsquo;s not possible to make bootable copies of Big Sur, even with asr, Apple&rsquo;s own built-in replication utility. As such, we haven&rsquo;t released a Beta, or even an internal Alpha, because it wouldn&rsquo;t meet our own requirements.[&#8230;]In the meantime, my advice for macOS Betas remains as valid as ever: do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-07T20:30:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"e4bc4c7a-eea7-4a64-9e93-ebe54ae47d5a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-07T23:48:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5LxMeu6nSmSek-vlSuR9Wg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,1607,146,1871,30,1891,369],"class_list":["post-30029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-apple-t2","tag-backup","tag-bridgeos","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-superduper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30034,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029\/revisions\/30034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}