Both apps are free and paid based on features. These two apps are a lot better and have more feature than the built-in utility of Mac OS.

Make sure you do not have anything significant on this external drive because while creating backup drive will be formatted and all the date on the external drive will be gone.Īpps to create a bootable backup: Third party utilities which let you perform such an action is SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner. Things you need to create bootable backup Clone of MacĮxternal Drive: An external hard drive which has to be the same size as an internal drive or higher. There are some third-party applications available in the market which lets you make a full clone backup on the external hard drive which will also boot like the internal drive. There is a built-in utility app in Mac OS which lets you create a clone of your entire hard drive, but it will not boot if you lost your built-in drive or having startup issues with your Mac. In any case, creating a clone copy of your entire Mac system files and also makes it bootable as the same copy of your Mac OS drive is very handy in these cases which are mention above or you name it.

Backup Mac, before you lose your hard drive, dead for any reason or having a startup problem with your Mac or just want to save your projects and office work on urgent bases or want to save family photos or videos.

Clone macos to external drive