I'm a huge fan of OCLP, so huge thanks to everyone who works on it. It's made it possible for me to continue doing real work on my 2013 MacBook Pro (currently with Sonoma 14.6.1).
My last OCLP-supported install of Sonoma worked beautifully...until it didn't. Something got corrupted after a couple months. I didn't crash or "brick" but started running incredibly slow and laggy and often froze. The problem might well have been that I didn't know to disable downloading of automatic updates. (According to Mr. Macintosh, even just downloading a new OS update [without installing it] can alter a previously-stable system by "preparing" the system for the OS update.)
So I wiped the drive and did a clean OCLP-supported install of Sonoma 14.6.1 (OCLP 1.5.0). So far it's working beautifully again.
Before I start reinstalling all my apps, I'd love to somehow capture the current, perfectly-stable-and-fast installation of OCLP and Sonoma...with the goal of making a restoration much faster and easier than having to go through the whole manual process again if anything should become corrupted in the future.
Is the best way to do this to create an image of my MacBook's internal SSD system drive? It seems to do this, I need to create an external boot disk with OCLP-supported Sonoma on it...so I can boot up onto the external disk and then image my internal SSD via Disk Utility? (Or would be it easier to use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner?)
Any advice is appreciated! I'm basically trying to make restoring my pristine OCLP install of Sonoma as simple as a one- or two-click process so it's easier the next time (if there is a next time) the system gets corrupted. THANKS!
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