Clone OS SSD to another drive problems

[Bravo2zero]

Hiya

Ive just installed Big Sur to my Mac mini but I'm wanting to pop it on a bigger drive.

Carbon Clone is no good as it seem not to make the disk bootable

Super Duper ! just seems to be hanging with only the count up timer doing something

Apple's Disk Utility does it however on reboot selecting the bigger drive I get a white flashing disco screen with a working mouse arrow.

Are there any other things I can try other than a reinstall ?

 

[Fishrrman]

CCC can't create a bootable clone of Big Sur (at least, not yet).
CCC CAN create a cloned copy, but it won't be bootable.

What you could do:
Use the latest version of CCC to create the clone onto an external drive.
Set that aside for the moment
Get ANOTHER external drive, the one you want to be the actual drive used.
Install a completely fresh copy of Big Sur onto it.
Now, go through the initial setup sequence.
When setup assistant asks if you wish to migrate from another drive, connect the CCC (non-bootable) cloned backup.
Let setup assistant migrate everything over from it.
Done.

Easy, eh....?

 

[Bravo2zero]

CCC can't create a bootable clone of Big Sur (at least, not yet).
CCC CAN create a cloned copy, but it won't be bootable.

What you could do:
Use the latest version of CCC to create the clone onto an external drive.
Set that aside for the moment
Get ANOTHER external drive, the one you want to be the actual drive used.
Install a completely fresh copy of Big Sur onto it.
Now, go through the initial setup sequence.
When setup assistant asks if you wish to migrate from another drive, connect the CCC (non-bootable) cloned backup.
Let setup assistant migrate everything over from it.
Done.

Easy, eh....?

What a &^%$%^ LoL

They don'l like you making it easy do they lol

I just had a light bulb moment about an hour ago and popped a 120gb SSD USB on the Mac and currently popping 10.15 on and will use CCC as that i know 100% in 10.15.

 

[Bravo2zero]

CCC can't create a bootable clone of Big Sur (at least, not yet).
CCC CAN create a cloned copy, but it won't be bootable.

What you could do:
Use the latest version of CCC to create the clone onto an external drive.
Set that aside for the moment
Get ANOTHER external drive, the one you want to be the actual drive used.
Install a completely fresh copy of Big Sur onto it.
Now, go through the initial setup sequence.
When setup assistant asks if you wish to migrate from another drive, connect the CCC (non-bootable) cloned backup.
Let setup assistant migrate everything over from it.
Done.

Easy, eh....?

Well I tried a downgrade to 10.15 on a smaller 128gb USB with just 10.15 on and CCC ( latest on official site ) and still no joy. It seem Big Sur is totally not clonable at all. I cloned 10.15 to another drive to be 100% sure it wasnt me and that cloned and booted, big sur 100% cant be done at this time.

I'll go down the route tomorrow as i'm off work the whole day of doing a fresh install and a a migrate or pull it off the time capsule.

Eric