Re: High Sierra worth all the potential conflicts to upgrade
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:09 am
“Bombich says Carbon Copy Cloner will not support AFPS-formatted sparse disk images until Apple resolves the issue”HCMarkus wrote:Things like this keep the feet chilly:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/19/ap ... sk-images/
If there is an issue. APFS may be working as designed. Apple has yet to release the white paper explaining how APFS is supposed to work. It is truly bizarre and not intuitive.
I’ve dealt with screwing APFS up and fixing it with a series of Disk Utility and Terminal Commands from three web sites that often contradicted each other. Even though I was successful, I barely understand what happened.
Time Machine works well, both backup and restore under OS 10.13. Good enough for me.
Cloning, otoh, has never been supported by Apple. I’ve used it because it is faster for some tasks but its lack of checks and redundancy is ripe for problems. I would never use cloning in place of Time Machine.