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Superduper clone recovery partition12/9/2023 ![]() Instead of seeing my main drive icon and the SD clone icon, I had the main drive icon with another drive icon called 10.8.5 Recovery. I shutdown and rebooted holding down the Option key. Things did not go as I would have expected. Your post got me to check how my Super Duper clone is working (SD 2.8 (v96)). I am an earlier OS (10.8.5), but my Super Duper backup is also on a Hitachi drive in an OWC Mercury enclosure (320GB HGST Travelstar Z7K320 2.5-inch 7mm SATA), although I am connected by Firewire 800. Is there any way to test the enclosure?ĪDDENDUM: When attempting to boot fro the clone, the progress bar goes about half way, stops, and the computer spontaneously shuts down. I feel that the hard drive is unlikely as the source of the issue because it is checked daily by Check Mate, with no problems found (file structure test, SMART, surface scan). I tried reconnecting via USB 3 but that was unsuccessful.Īt this point, I think that the problem may lie with either the enclosure or the hard drive. I have the enclosure connected via Thunderbolt. Disk Warrior reports minor issues (incorrect root correction date and repair of a custom flag for ScamZapper) but I have not run DW on the clone after re-doing the clone. The clone did boot, once, after running Repair Disk via Disk Utility but I think that that was coincidence. Erase the clone and re-clone from scratch. ![]() He had me try the following (all unsuccessful):ġ. I contacted Dave Nanian at Shirt Pocket (the developer of SuperDuper) and he has not seen this issue with El Capitan. After upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan, the clone will not boot (although this may be coincidental). The clone is located in a Mercury enclosure on a Hitachi DeskStar 2 TB drive. So, can anyone explain what all that "Top Processors Snapshots" mean? The machine seems to be running fine.I use the latest version of SuperDuper to make a clone. When I selected that Poor Performance "tab", it came up with this:Ĭan't seem to post anything further to my post above. It certainly is, as the machine seems to be running fine, and "about the same" as it was when I had the latest version of Mojave (OS 10.14.6). " Poor performance - EtreCheck report shows poor performance. One thing that was surprising (and maybe disturbing) was that it reported Poor performance. So, it definitely looks like SuperDuper! is, indeed, copying the Recovery partition also. ![]() For the external ones, they were, as others have pointed out, copied by SuperDuper! from each of my Macs. For the internal one, that was created by the installation of Catalina. One of those partitions was the Recovery one. It did find every partition on the internal SSD (including the eDrive I created yesterday (via TechTool Pro), and all SuperDuper! partitions on the both partitions on the external SSD. The external drive is connected to the Mini via a USB 3.1 cable. The third partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended, just contains various "kinds" of file (Photos, Documents, Movies, TV series, etc.). ![]() Those backups are the last Mojave backups for each machine (the MacBook Air is also now running OS 10.15.2). It has 3 partitions: two of them are APFS formatted, and contain SuperDuper! backups made yesterday for each of my Macs (the mini, and a mid 2017 MacBook Air with a 252 gig SSD and 8 gig of Ram). A Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig SSD enclosed in an Orico enclosure. It was installed yesterday, via a clean, fresh installation.Ģ. A late 2012 Mac Mini with a 256 gig Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 8 gig of Ram, running the latest version of Catalina, OS 10.15.2. OK, I made some misstatements about EtreCheck.ġ. I guess the only way to confirm this is when booting from the external device, hold down the Command and R keys together. Yet, EtreCheck does show the Recovery partition on the external device (via SuperDuper!), but cannot "see/detect" the eDrive partition on the internal drive. And for the external SSD, for the SuperDuper! (Mojave) backup, it shows the primary partition, and then it says "3 not mounted".įor the System Report, and in my case, for the internal drive, it shows the "main" Catalina partition, the EFI partition (gets created by the installation of the OS), and the eDrive partition I created via TechTool Pro. I'm guessing those 2 are the Recovery partition, and the eDrive. For Disk Utility, on the internal SSD, it shows the "primary" Catalina partition, the "Data" partition, the VM partition, and then it says "2 not mounted". Similarly, cannot see any additional partitions on my external SSD. The Recovery Partition on the internal device can not be "seen" via the System Report (after clicking on the Apple icon in the upper left corner, then selecting "About This Mac", then clicking on "System Report", and finally selecting "SATA/SATAExpress"), nor by Disk Utility. Click to expand.You know, it's really funny about that.
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