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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1884306" data-attributes="member: 204485">This is the part of Mike's article that concerns me, Soft failure of the internal SSD, for example significant corruption in the absence of any hardware failure, is recoverable by putting the Mac into DFU mode, connecting to another Mac, and restoring its firmware and software using Configurator 2. This is surprisingly quick and simple, although it may appear daunting. For those without another suitable Mac, Apple stores and service providers can do this for you. What you then end up with is effectively a new Mac, and you’ll be reliant on your backups to set its Data volume up.Corruption of just the normal macOS boot container is best managed by installing macOS from recoveryOS, and migration from your backup. It’s this step which might appear most amenable to cloning, but the advantage of installing a fresh copy of macOS is that it’s guaranteed to be completely wholesome, and will hook up correctly with its firmlinked Data volume.&quot;Configurator 2 is new territory for me but I guess I have time to brush up on it.&nbsp; One of our users has already employed this method mentioned in another thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1884306, member: 204485"] This is the part of Mike's article that concerns me, Soft failure of the internal SSD, for example significant corruption in the absence of any hardware failure, is recoverable by putting the Mac into DFU mode, connecting to another Mac, and restoring its firmware and software using Configurator 2. This is surprisingly quick and simple, although it may appear daunting. For those without another suitable Mac, Apple stores and service providers can do this for you. What you then end up with is effectively a new Mac, and you’ll be reliant on your backups to set its Data volume up. Corruption of just the normal macOS boot container is best managed by installing macOS from recoveryOS, and migration from your backup. It’s this step which might appear most amenable to cloning, but the advantage of installing a fresh copy of macOS is that it’s guaranteed to be completely wholesome, and will hook up correctly with its firmlinked Data volume." Configurator 2 is new territory for me but I guess I have time to brush up on it. One of our users has already employed this method mentioned in another thread. [/QUOTE]

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