CCC5: Clone MacOS systemdisk to encrypted external drive?

[swealpha]

Hello!

I have bought CarbonCopyCloner, but got very sad about how complex it seem to clone the firevault protected macbook ssd to a external drive and keep it encrypted with filevault?

My setup is: Macbook PRO mid 2014 (High Sierra) with ssd internal disk.
I want to be protected against if the 8 year old internal ssd-disk dies. And be able to just change the SSD.

I have read this:
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/working-filevault-encryption

And what I have understand is to
1. Format the external 5400rpm drive as ATFS (non-encrypted).
2. Clone the internal MacOS (filevault activated) to the external drive using CCC5.
3. Boot from the external drive.
4. Acivate Filevault while booted from the external drive.
5. Wait for the encryption progress to finish.
6. Done.

Is this correct? Any better easy way to do this?
I mean this takes about a 6 hours to complete.

What about the next time I want to sync the internal drive to the external? Start over from 1.?

Thank you very much.

 

[MarkVeldhuis]

I have read this:
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/working-filevault-encryption

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"You do not have to wait for the conversion process to complete before rebooting from your production startup disk​

Additionally, you do not have to wait for the conversion process to complete before using your backup disk. You can simply enable FileVault encryption, then immediately reboot from your primary startup disk and the conversion process will carry on in the background."

So your step 5 is not necessary. 😉

 

[swealpha]

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"You do not have to wait for the conversion process to complete before rebooting from your production startup disk​

Additionally, you do not have to wait for the conversion process to complete before using your backup disk. You can simply enable FileVault encryption, then immediately reboot from your primary startup disk and the conversion process will carry on in the background."

So your step 5 is not necessary. 😉

Amazing, thank you.

But I instead choosed to use MacExtended filesystem. Then you can just clone the filevault systemdisk without any issues.

1. Format the external 5400rpm drive as macExtended encrypted.
2. Clone the internal MacOS macExtended (filevault activated) to the external drive using CCC5.
3. Boot from the external drive (and type in the filevault password to login).