SuperDuper or CCC with Monterey on M1 iMac

[MacInWin]

Note... that this started with Monterey 12.1. No problem before that. Also note.. the same exact thing happens with both CCC and SD! I blame this one on Apple.

I did use SD! to make a bootable clone, and it did boot for me. However, at the end of the backup process, SD! threw an error that it could not "bless" the drive. Dave Nanian said to give it a try anyway, and it did boot. What was curious is that at the end of the backup process the Data volume was NOT mounted, but when I tried the boot, it did mount as you would expect. Then, when I went back to the internal Volume to boot, the backup Data did mount and Finder did logically tie the Volumes together. So, something is definitely going on, whether with the third party developers or Apple. Bottom line is that backups are broken at the moment, in many different ways.

 

[chscag]

Thanks Jake. I need to send a copy of the KP report to Bombich to see if he can figure something out. However, I'm not holding my breath. He more or less advised me previously to give up on creating a bootable clone. Unless Apple does some repairs with Monterey 12.2 I probably will just continue with using the standard backup and Time Machine. Fortunately TM is still working for me.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Ok, so I have my CCC backup bootable once again. While re-doing this, I finally recalled a couple caveats. These backups are only bootable up until macOS on the internal volume gets updated. My backup long preceded 12.1, so a fresh clone had to be made from scratch. But yeah, works fine. No kernel panics or other errors.

 

[pine man]

Having read the recent posts I have decided to update my backup strategy.

For the time being bootable backups will not be a priority. TM is working ok, as is CCC, and I have decided to add SD! to my stable of backup software programs.

Having looked through my Data a lot of what is really important to me is already synchronised in one cloud or another and my emails are IMAP.

I still have my good old intel, Catalina, iMac and if the worst happens I can restore any Data I need to it and be up and running in minutes. (My wife thinks the Intel mac is hers but it is still registered with my Apple ID!!).

 

[DCM_UK]

I can't get TM to make a backup any longer. Last backup was Dec 15, since then it runs, but makes no backup. Takes up space on the destination drive, no files. First Aid does not fix it, the files are not hidden. And when I tried to get TM to make a NEW backup on a NEW drive, it consistently reports that it has never made a successful backup. Apple is aware and supposedly working on it. Bottom line, right now just about all backups are broken in some way.

I too have been losing sleep over backing up since moving to Monterey 12.1, TM works, or seems to, to a USB connected HDD but simply will not work to my old Time Capsule, it just sits there with a blue wiggly and bombs out after 5 minutes or so with a sparse bundle could not be accessed (error 19).
Restoring a backup is another matter, the restore button is greyed out, should I use migration assistant, to be honest I'm out of my depth but Apple Support are helping and the case is ongoing. Another thing, the Monterey wallpaper is disgusting!

 

[MacInWin]

I too have been losing sleep over backing up since moving to Monterey 12.1, TM works, or seems to, to a USB connected HDD but simply will not work to my old Time Capsule, it just sits there with a blue wiggly and bombs out after 5 minutes or so with a sparse bundle could not be accessed (error 19).
Restoring a backup is another matter, the restore button is greyed out, should I use migration assistant, to be honest I'm out of my depth but Apple Support are helping and the case is ongoing.

I got TM to work, finally. I posted the steps I followed in this thread: iMac M1 Monterey running slowly.

Post #227. The files TM cannot gain access to are associated with "Find My..." in some way, so excluding them from the backup lets it complete. I have had three successful backups since cleaning up the blocked files as I posted in that thread.

If you don't have access to the sparsebundle, you don't have a working backup, period. That could be why you cannot restore.