Copies of the Signed System Volume are not bootable without a cryptographic seal applied by Apple. One example of this is the introduction of the Signed System Volume in Big Sur. One of the consequences of those changes is that is harder for third-party applications that need deep access to the system to work. However, over the last few versions of macOS Apple has been making changes to make it more secure. Some apps are focused on creating clones of your hard drive and offer incremental backup as an extra feature.

Apple’s own Time Machine, which is included with macOS, is an example of this kind of solution. If they ever fix this showstopper bug, I'll definitely be happy to try it again.Many options are focused solely on making backing up your Mac regularly as easy as as possible. Since PD backup is the only unique feature and the only reason I can see to choose ATI for Mac, I'm not. Hahaha, downgrade one of the main apps I use all day long to work around a bug in backup software? No. Acronis support acknowledges this problem and claims it will be fixed in a future update (while Parallels confirms it's an ATI problem), but both ATI 2016 and PD11 have been out for months now, no ETA on any such fix.Īcronis' suggested workaround? Downgrade to PD10. However, THIS DOES NOT WORK - ATI 2016 cannot create PD11 snapshots. In fact, Parallels also advertises this and even has a button from within PD to launch ATI. It has almost no configuration options, no custom scheduling of backup sets and consolidation rules, no notifications.īut the big feature that interested me is it claims to be able to do snapshot-consistent backups of Parallels Desktop v.11 images. I used ATI for Windows for years and while it was a pain to admin and always had a bug or three, it was pretty configurable and did a good job, if you put in effort.

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