Smartbackup free mac update#
Smartbackup free mac mac#

It supports all the features including excludes and archiving. Think of your clone simply as a SmartBackup backup.

Smartbackup free mac update#

SmartBackup can not only create a fresh clone of your start-volume, but also update an existing clone - which is of course much faster.

Smartbackup free mac mac#

Add the harddisk of your Mac as a source.

Create a new backup and select the destination volume.

Legacy support to clone HFS volumes with 10.13 or 10.14: As such all efforts to add clone support have been halted for now. At the time of writing this it is technically impossible to create a bootable clone of Big Sur alltogether. As such it is not possible to create bootable clones of 10.15 Catalina, Big Sur or later.

IMPORTANT: Please note that SmartBackup does not support bootable clones of APFS volumes. You should not have to modify the defaults configured under 'Advanced' unless you do something specific like debugging a sync using extended logging, changing the number of parallel copies (please see the 'copy threads' section for details) or require pre-allocation for Xsan/Stornext volumes. The options panel allows you to configure Automation (please see the Automation section for details), Archiving options (please see the Archiving Options section for details) and 'Advanced' options. You can at any point re-select an existing destination in SmartBackup and the settings are re-loaded from it.Įach destination has configurable 'Options' which are accessible via the 'Options' button. Now you can select them, add them as sources and set them to be excluded.Īll sync settings (sources and excludes, options and automation) are stored inside the destination and can be different for each of them.

To add those, click the + button to show the open panel and then use the Command-Shift-Fullstop shortcut to show invisible files in the open panel. Sometimes you want to exclude invisible folders from your sync. If you want include a subfolder of an excluded folder, you can add it as a separate additional source set to 'sync'. This popup can be set to 'sync' (the default), 'skip' to ignore this item during sync but not remove it from the destination, 'exclude' to globally exclude this item from the sync, and 'exclude matching' to globally exclude every item with this name. APFS, FileVault2, Cloning File MetadataĮach source has a 'mode' popup on its right side. You can exclude items from a sync by adding them as a source and setting the mode popup on the right to 'exclude'. Options include archiving and scheduled automatic syncs.Ĭlick the 'Magnifying Glass' button to search the destination for files by name and see all existing versions.

(A destination can also be an existing SmartBackup destination in which case its source configuration and settings will be loaded automatically.)Īfter having chosen the destination you can add source files, folders or volumes to the white source side via drag&drop or using the 'Add' button.Ĭlick the Action (Cogwheel) button under the destination title to configure the options for the currently selected sync destination. (If you have more than one destination configured you can switch between them using the popup button under the destination icon.)Īfter launching the App for the first time, you start by adding a destination (folder or volume) on the right side of the interface using the ADD button. You can configure several destinations with each having their own sets of source items. SmartBackup syncs one or multiple sources (files, folders or volumes) to a destination folder or volume.