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The installer is about 12GB compressed, and about 30GB decompressed, so have at least 50GB free space on your system drive.ĭouble-click on the Install macOS Big Sur app and direct it to install on the backup volume.
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The system will search for the installer and then download it into your Application folder (look for Install macOS Big Sur.app).
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Open the Terminal (also in the Utilities folder) on your Mac and at the prompt paste in: The fine folks at OS X daily figured it out. They used to be downloadable from Apple's support pages, but no more. The hardest part is getting the macOS installer. Then install macOS Big Sur on that backup volume. Now, on the freshly created volume, I used Bombich Software's Carbon Copy Cloner to perform a backup of my M1 MacBook Air system drive. Your choice, makes no difference for the backup.Īlso: M1 MacBook Air review: After 3 months use, here's what I wish I'd known A window will come up asking if you want dedicate the capacity or share unused drive capacity. Attach an external drive, bring up Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities), select Partition and choose the capacity, macOS file system (APFS or HFS+) and click Apply. Use Disk Utility to create a new volume on an external SSD. Installing macOS Big Sur first won't work. Then backup regularly to that same volume.