EFIClone - automatic backup of the EFI partition

[didi76]

Hi guys,
Are there news concerning the shell script? I tried it and it worked the first time, however took very long... (hours). The 2nd time I quit CCC since the log file of the shell refused to talk to me. I guess something is wrong with it? Any suggestions appreciated. Cheers! I would love to upload my log file, however its 500MB fat - whysoever. The screenshot is the last piece of it...

 

[IanH]

Hi Wombat

Thanks for this - a really great option for all of us! I seem to have an error though. CCC completes and runs the script, which creates EFI partition on my backup drive, but then CCC hangs and this is the content of EFIClone.log on the destination drive:

[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - ***** EFI Clone Script start
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - working directory = /
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - Running /EFIClone/EFIClone.sh
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - Called From Carbon Copy Cloner
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - 1: Source Path = /private/tmp/16777242@180906101102
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - 2: Destination Path = /Volumes/SAVEME
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - 3: CCC Exit Status = 0
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - 4: Disk image file path =
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - CCC completed with success, the EFI Clone Script will run
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - CCC clone was not to a disk image. the EFI Clone Script will run
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - sourceVolume = /private/tmp/16777242@180906101102
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - sourceVolumeDisk =
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:55 SAST 2018] - destinationVolume = /Volumes/SAVEME
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - destinationVolumeDisk = disk9
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - sourceEFIPartition = disk0s1 disk1s1 disk2s1 disk3s1 disk4s1 disk5s1 disk6s1 disk9s1
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - destinationEFIPartition = disk9s1
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - efiBootPartitionUUID =
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - efiBootPartitionDisk =
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - drives Mounted
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - sourceEFIMountPoint =
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - destinationEFIMountPoint = /Volumes/EFI
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - Synchronizing all files with rsync --delete option
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - from /EFI to /Volumes/EFI. Details follow...
[Thu Sep 6 10:17:56 SAST 2018] - --------------------------------------------------------------------
building file list ... done
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
./

Can anyone help?

 

[Gobias]

I just tried running the script with SuperDuper for the first time, and the log had this error about "an unsupported number of parameters":

[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - ***** EFI Clone Script start
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - working directory = /
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - Running /Applications/EFIClone-master/EFIClone.sh
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - 5 parameters were passed in. This is an unsupported number of parameters. Exiting now

Any idea what might be wrong?

 

[elfcake]

I just tried running the script with SuperDuper for the first time, and the log had this error about "an unsupported number of parameters":

[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - ***** EFI Clone Script start
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - working directory = /
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - Running /Applications/EFIClone-master/EFIClone.sh
[Sat Oct  6 16:38:06 EDT 2018] - 5 parameters were passed in. This is an unsupported number of parameters. Exiting now

Any idea what might be wrong?

Did you use this?:

 

[Gobias]

Did you use this?:

Yes

 

[elfcake]

Yes

How many attempts have you made?

 

[elfcake]

Yes

Is the drive that you are cloning APFS?

 

[Gobias]

How many attempts have you made?

Only once, but now I have what I think is an unrelated issue preventing me from booting macOS, so I'm not sure when I'll be able to try again.

Is the drive that you are cloning APFS?

Yes

 

[elfcake]

Only once, but now I have what I think is an unrelated issue preventing me from booting macOS, so I'm not sure when I'll be able to try again.


Yes

Can you Restore to previous functioning Time Machine back-up using a USB boot drive?

 

[paulo_paulo]

I tried to make bootable copy of my 10.12.5 sierra instalation using that script and licensed superduper, but got the same "parameter something" error as above.