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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1882544" data-attributes="member: 38864">In which case no bootable backup would work, correct? So I'm still not understanding what all the fuss is about with regards to CCC and/or bootable backups. But is that accurate about what happens if the SSD is faulty? Do we KNOW this?Anywho, as an update... I've been working on making a bootable backup using Bombich's instructions and it's not going well. I made a clean clone to a freshly erased parition, which indeed was a data-only clone. I then booted into Recovery Mode and installed Big Sur to that backup partition. When I attempted to boot off that drive, I was asked to authorize a user, but it insisted my password was incorrect (it most certainly was not). I then re-cloned my data using CCC and the end result? Trying to set my backup drive as the startup disk results in a message saying I need to reinstall Big Sur.My best guess at this point, since I'm assuming Bombich knows what they are talking about, is that the problem I'm experiencing is rooted in me having multiple partitions on my external drive. I have one partition as an emergency boot disk with some utilities; the Backup partition in questions; and a 3rd ExFAT parition for transferring files easily to Boot Camp on my iMac. Maybe if the drive was formatted as a single partition, this would go smoother. I don't know. Nor care at this moment.</blockquote>