![]() Once cloned grab the 10.12.6 combo update, (for any future clean installs) here: Ĭombo updates bring your machine up to date, but aren't the full installer. As Charlie pointed out it's way more useful as a restoration tool than Time Machine.) (Fully working for 30 days, highly encourage buying it after though. What I'd recommend doing instead is grabbing Carbon Copy Cloner and cloning your system now so it's as close to a clean install point as you can get. ![]() Unfortunately, if you've never downloaded Sierra you won't see it in your 'purchases' tab. You'd want an installer in case you decide to do a clean install. With a little Googling you can find the links to download the installers for most MacOS versions. I use a little utility to make those USB sticks bootable, the process is explained here: Yes, you can download the installer for most versions of MacOS - I do this and create bootable USB-stick flash drive installers to have around. I make a Carbon Copy Clone of the "virgin" system drive before installing any software (in case I want to go back to the start) and also do another after I get everything set up how I want. When dealing with the system drive, things are a little different than other drives, and using Carbon Copy Cloner will copy all of the little invisible files that simple drag-n-dropping from the desktop won't copy. ![]() I manually back up all my SSDs to large capacity spinning drives every so often.įor the system drive, it is good to have Carbon Copy Cloner and use it to clone that drive to disc images on a big spinning drive, or to a single drive that you dedicate to system drive clones. Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup utility that can take snapshots of whatever drives you want and keep them backed up - but I never use it.
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