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SuperDuper! ($28) released version 3.3 in November with full Catalina backup and boot support. If you havenвЂ™t used CCC in a couple of years, you need version 5 for Catalina support. Time Machine correctly archives your entire startup volume (as well as other volumes you might specify), letting you restore a Catalina drive as you would a previous version of macOS.Д¬arbon Copy Cloner ($40) has supported making full clones that boot with Catalina since August 2019. Apple chose this method as a way to enhance security, putting read-only system files on one volume and your changeable data, home directory, preference files, and all the rest on another.Д«ut where does this leave you if you want to clone your startup volume and create a backup that can be used as a one-stop shop for restoring a failed drive or Mac, or which can be booted from? Fortunately, all the software you need is up to date. It is the safest hard drive cloning utility available in the market and it comes with several benefits: the ability to create a disk image of entire Mac hard drive, Solid State Drives, Partitions, External Hard Drives, backing up your entire Mac including the BootCamp partitions. Until macOS 10.15 Catalina, Mac users knew: their startup volume was a single volume, just as it appeared! (Okay, for Fusion drive users, there are two physical drives managed by software to appear as a single вЂњdisk drive,вЂќ but thatвЂ™s separate from the data organization that is a volume on a drive.)ДЄs I wrote a couple of months ago, Apple relies on a feature in APFS (Apple File System) called вЂњvolume group.вЂќ This allows macOS to link together two separate volumes to appear as a single drive. Step 1) Firstly, clone Mac hard drive and back up the BootCamp partition using Stellar Drive Clone software.