#CHRONOSYNC MAC UPDATE#

He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. This approach creates bootable backups that are straightforward and easy to maintain.ĬhronoSync v10 also adds improved support for iCloud - the app can now both back up iCloud data as well as synchronize other data directly to iCloud ensuring it syncs with all Macs signed into the same Apple ID.

Once the full system clone is made, ChronoSync will only handle the Data volume in subsequent syncs. ChronoSync 10 takes advantage of Apple's APFS replication utility (called ASR) to create a cloned image on the destination volume. It ignored the System volume and could only sync the Data volume which was a less than ideal scenario. ChronoSync's approach to creating bootable backups on Big Sur was a bit cumbersome. Starting with Big Sur you could no longer copy the System volume. Since Catalina, Apple split the main drive into two volumes: System and Data.

#CHRONOSYNC MAC UPDATE#

The return of bootable backups is a big deal for users of the most recent macOS Monterey update and means that users of ChronoSync can now create bootable backups that are not only easy to create, but also easy to maintain to ensure they have the latest data, too.ĬhronoSync 10 features the return of the simple Bootable Backups for Big Sur and Monterey.

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