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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1882539" data-attributes="member: 190607">If CCC and SD! can resume making bootable clone backup drives for M1-based Macs, it seems to me that a bootable clone is far from &quot;useless&quot;.&nbsp; In the event of a catastrophic failure of your main M1 Macintosh, all that you need to do is attach your bootable clone to another Mac, boot from your backup, and you are back to work as if nothing ever happened.&nbsp; True, you need to have a Mac that will run under the same version of the Mac OS, and there is now the new requirement to have a backup Macintosh, but when your work in important, having a bootable backup is a huge thing.Many of us already have multiple Macs.&nbsp; Some have both desktops and laptops.&nbsp; Some have older Macs that their newer Mac replaced.&nbsp; If worse came to worse, one could lease an additional Macintosh until their main one was repaired.In my work I can't afford to have everything down for the major portion of a day or two.&nbsp; I have deadlines.&nbsp; I can't be relying on a Time Machine backup, where, if my main Mac completely dies, it will take me many hours to reconfigure another Mac to be set up and run exactly like the old one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1882539, member: 190607"] If CCC and SD! can resume making bootable clone backup drives for M1-based Macs, it seems to me that a bootable clone is far from "useless". In the event of a catastrophic failure of your main M1 Macintosh, all that you need to do is attach your bootable clone to another Mac, boot from your backup, and you are back to work as if nothing ever happened. True, you need to have a Mac that will run under the same version of the Mac OS, and there is now the new requirement to have a backup Macintosh, but when your work in important, having a bootable backup is a huge thing. Many of us already have multiple Macs. Some have both desktops and laptops. Some have older Macs that their newer Mac replaced. If worse came to worse, one could lease an additional Macintosh until their main one was repaired. In my work I can't afford to have everything down for the major portion of a day or two. I have deadlines. I can't be relying on a Time Machine backup, where, if my main Mac completely dies, it will take me many hours to reconfigure another Mac to be set up and run exactly like the old one. [/QUOTE]

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