Thanks, you saved me some money. No point in buying an external SSD or flash drive if I won't be able to clone my drive with Big Sur. Any idea why Apple is eliminating the abilty to clone a drive?
It can be summed up in a single word,
SECURITY. Apple is trying to make the system as bullet proof as possible. Apple may eventually come up with a command line app to create a bootable clone but that will be a trick to create as Big Sur boots from a virtual volume that is stored on the boot drive as a APFS snapshot. The ball is in Apple's court.
