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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1862849" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>I'm not following what you plan to do. You have Catalina installed internally, finally. You have a backup of CCC and TM on the same drive (A bad idea, actually, if that drive fails you lose BOTH of them. Backups should be on different drives.) You have a new external drive coming, plan to clone the Catalina drive to it with CCC. Never mind the TM backup you plan, I'll get to that in a minute. You also have an internal SSD coming that you plant to fit internally, then restore from the new external CCC clone. So far, that would work. So what is the problem you think you will encounter? You aren't restoring from the old Sierra backup, you said you would restore from the new Catalina clone. I'm confused.</p><p></p><p>You may also have an issue with TM and CCC trying to share the same drive. Again, that is a really bad idea as I said earlier. Plus, Catalina has a completely new drive format, APFS, which takes advantage of how SSDs work, and CCC clones that formatting. But TM requires, I think, HFS+, the older format. So the new drive would end up with two different formats in the two partitions. In addition, APFS completely changes what goes on, and even the terminology, in it's space. Instead of partitions, you have Containers, and inside those Containers are Volumes. By default Catalina has two Volumes--Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. The first is the system drive and is read-only to all users as it is for system files only. The second, Data, is where all user data is kept. To make it look the same as before, Catalina merges the two Volumes into one icon on the desktop named Macintosh HD, and if you open in Finder, it looks exactly like the old Macintosh HD. But it is, in fact, two Volumes. The new APFS also avoids having to size Volumes as you have to do in the old partition scheme, as they share whatever space is remaining in the Container. Here is how that looks in Disk Utility on my Mac:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]32462[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So, can you explain what you think is the issue you want to avoid? Then maybe we can suggest a set of actions to make this transition of drives easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1862849, member: 396914"] I'm not following what you plan to do. You have Catalina installed internally, finally. You have a backup of CCC and TM on the same drive (A bad idea, actually, if that drive fails you lose BOTH of them. Backups should be on different drives.) You have a new external drive coming, plan to clone the Catalina drive to it with CCC. Never mind the TM backup you plan, I'll get to that in a minute. You also have an internal SSD coming that you plant to fit internally, then restore from the new external CCC clone. So far, that would work. So what is the problem you think you will encounter? You aren't restoring from the old Sierra backup, you said you would restore from the new Catalina clone. I'm confused. You may also have an issue with TM and CCC trying to share the same drive. Again, that is a really bad idea as I said earlier. Plus, Catalina has a completely new drive format, APFS, which takes advantage of how SSDs work, and CCC clones that formatting. But TM requires, I think, HFS+, the older format. So the new drive would end up with two different formats in the two partitions. In addition, APFS completely changes what goes on, and even the terminology, in it's space. Instead of partitions, you have Containers, and inside those Containers are Volumes. By default Catalina has two Volumes--Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. The first is the system drive and is read-only to all users as it is for system files only. The second, Data, is where all user data is kept. To make it look the same as before, Catalina merges the two Volumes into one icon on the desktop named Macintosh HD, and if you open in Finder, it looks exactly like the old Macintosh HD. But it is, in fact, two Volumes. The new APFS also avoids having to size Volumes as you have to do in the old partition scheme, as they share whatever space is remaining in the Container. Here is how that looks in Disk Utility on my Mac: [ATTACH type="full"]32462[/ATTACH] So, can you explain what you think is the issue you want to avoid? Then maybe we can suggest a set of actions to make this transition of drives easier. [/QUOTE]
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