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F/U: No go using same drive for CCC and TM on Big Sur
#1
https://forums.macresource.com/read.php?...sg-2652034

I've tried at least 10 different ways, and I cannot get both Time Machine to use the same hardware AND CCC for a bootable division or partition on an external hard drive under Big Sur. This was all using the latest v5 of CCC (I realize I could try CCC6 next).

In the end, I have two partitions - one for Time Machine, one for CCC to backup my data. I think this is ok, as I would not be running this M1 Mini off an external spinny disk anyway.

Thought I'd post in case someone else is trying to get this to work - and if they do, please post their workflow. In the end, I wiped the external drive and had Time Machine start. I tried having CCC add a new division, did not work. I tried manually splitting the APFS drive. Did not work. I made a separate partition, that did not work. I left the two partitions in place and went with data-only CCC backups. This might have worked as a single partition, however. But I ran out of time on this project and just wanted a working solution.
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#2
Interesting.

I havent seen it... although if my memory serves almost all of my clients drives were created pre Bug Sur... carry overs from older OSes.
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#3
So are you saying as long as you are not trying to make a bootable partition on the Time Machine HD with A Time Machine partition, that you can have 2 partitions, 1 for Time Machine, and 1 for IMAGE backups for CCC?

IS that good to go?

And Format 2 separate partitions APFS??

thanks
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#4
Microman wrote:
So are you saying as long as you are not trying to make a bootable partition on the Time Machine HD with A Time Machine partition, that you can have 2 partitions, 1 for Time Machine, and 1 for IMAGE backups for CCC?

IS that good to go?

And Format 2 separate partitions APFS??

thanks

Yes, that is correct. 2 partitions, both APFS. Data on one via CCC, TM on the other.

The issue that I've run into is having CCC make it a bootable backup using this setup. Note - I WAS able to make what CCC said was a bootable backup using the same drive but was not able to THEN add Time Machine backups. Time Machine would not recognize the drive as an option.
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#5
Did you boot into Recovery mode and lower the Startup Security?

sekker wrote:
https://forums.macresource.com/read.php?...sg-2652034

I've tried at least 10 different ways, and I cannot get both Time Machine to use the same hardware AND CCC for a bootable division or partition on an external hard drive under Big Sur. This was all using the latest v5 of CCC (I realize I could try CCC6 next).

In the end, I have two partitions - one for Time Machine, one for CCC to backup my data. I think this is ok, as I would not be running this M1 Mini off an external spinny disk anyway.

Thought I'd post in case someone else is trying to get this to work - and if they do, please post their workflow. In the end, I wiped the external drive and had Time Machine start. I tried having CCC add a new division, did not work. I tried manually splitting the APFS drive. Did not work. I made a separate partition, that did not work. I left the two partitions in place and went with data-only CCC backups. This might have worked as a single partition, however. But I ran out of time on this project and just wanted a working solution.
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#6
Wait a sec.

It's a M1 mini.

Did you say "bootable" before?

CCC will only clone the "Data" vol from a Big Sur Mac by default.

You can override this to make bootable backups from M1 Macs with the latest versions of CCC 5 and 6, but it's tricky. CCC will make the boot vol, but M1s are finicky about what kind of hardware they'll boot from. In most cases this operation will require an external Thunderbolt 3 SSD. (And you have to enable booting to externals in Recovery.)

You can easily use CCC to back up the "Data" vol from your Mac (the volume that contains your home folder) and later recover from that backup in a pinch. This is the main utility of CCC on a M1 Mac for those who don't have external/network drives to back up.
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#7
Sarcany, that’s a great explanation. Nothing is listed specifically in CCC when it fails, so data backup it is.
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