Adam Engst of TidBITS joins us to talk about a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 that affected a low-level system tool called Apple System Restore or ASR. This tool is the path for developers of backup tools to create true bootable backups, and the bug makes it now impossible to create bootable backups. We talk about the different viewpoints of the developers of Superduper!, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Chronosyc regarding the future of bootable backups. Then Adam talks about whether we really need bootable backups anymore. We then segue into a survey Adam conducted on backup strategies with TidBITS readers and he discusses the relative merits of the different strategies.
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You mentioned that Apple makes it so easy to back up, but Windows (10 or 11) has backup to OneDrive built in and turned on for your key directories, and is in fact almost impossible to turn off even if you DON’T want it to do so.
So just one more point for “I’m a Mac, and I’m PC, and we’re basically the same these days” =D