Back Up Your M-Series Mac
With each system release in the last few years, Apple has layered on more protection for system files and software. These improvements have made it ever harder for any kind of hacker, local or remote, to mess around with macOS to grab your data, watch you while you work, or commit other mayhem. In fact, macOS is so restrictive that even when you’re logged in to a running copy of macOS as the root user via the Terminal, you can’t make any changes to system files!
Generally, that’s good. But where it’s bad—or at least tricky—is in creating a full backup of your system that you can use to start up your Mac as an external drive, and restore exactly after erasing your Mac or to a new system. The M series makes this even ...
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