How to enable automatic backup to EFI-Backups

[Decidus]

Hi. I was recently bitten by the Clover 4586 problem. I muddled through a fix for that but along the way discovered that I do not have an EFI-Backups folder, and thus didn't have a backup of a prior EFI to restore when my system was unbootable. I've looked at Clover Configurator and seen a setting or two that looked like it might control backups, but it looked to me like it was set to perform them (NVRAM->EFI folder backups: force create on destination volume CHECKED). Nevertheless, I have no backups, no EFI-Backups folder. Not sure what I did to disable them, but any advice would be welcome. Thanks.

Sorry if this is an easy one, but searching for anything related to EFI-Backups pulls up a million hits related to using/restoring backups, but I couldn't find anything about turning them on/off.

 

[BreBo]

Not sure what I did to disable them, but any advice would be welcome.

AFAIK you don't have to enable/disable it.
Each time that you install or update Clover a copy of your /EFI folder is saved to your system disk in /EFI-Backups.

 

[Decidus]

AFAIK you don't have to enable/disable it.
Each time that you install or update Clover a copy of your /EFI folder is saved to your system disk in /EFI-Backups.

Yeah, I guess that's the way it's supposed to work, but I sure don't have the folder. My assumption is that I've accidentally disabled it somehow, but I don't know how I did it or how to reverse it.

 

[P1LGRIM]

Yeah, I guess that's the way it's supposed to work, but I sure don't have the folder. My assumption is that I've accidentally disabled it somehow, but I don't know how I did it or how to reverse it.

Use the Clover installer to install the Clover preference pane and you can then use that to control the backup behaviour.