sebus Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Obviously that is not the question to ask in Apple or Jamf forums, because they members just follow the Book of Apple (only do what we allow you to do) Ofcourse Apple no longer support imaging real Mac with T2 chip, but using simple script one can easily restore apfs container image captured from NON-T2 hardware (ie Mac mini 2016): #!/bin/sh hdiutil attach /Volumes/Image\ Volume/Catalina-10.15.6.dmg -noverify -nomount diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ %noformat% gpt /dev/disk0 diskutil apfs createcontainer /dev/disk0s2 asr restore --source /dev/disk26 --target /dev/disk0s2 --erase --noprompt --useInverter # http://blog.tempel.org/2019/05/cloning-apfs-volumes-containers-apfs.html /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util -s /dev/disk1 diskutil mount /dev/disk1s3 diskutil mount /dev/disk1s4 newuuid=`diskutil apfs list | grep -B0 "Volume disk1s1" | awk '{print $4}'` mv /Volumes/Preboot/* /Volumes/Preboot/$newuuid mv /Volumes/Recovery/* /Volumes/Recovery/$newuuid Works perfectly restored to NON-T2 hardware But if gets restored to T2 hardware MacBoor Pro 2019, I get encryption error: +-- Container disk1 AC3AA5BF-580C-488F-B2CA-06EE7AFEAAA4 ==================================================== APFS Container Reference: disk1 Size (Capacity Ceiling): 121018208256 B (121.0 GB) Capacity In Use By Volumes: 27882680320 B (27.9 GB) (23.0% used) Capacity Not Allocated: 93135527936 B (93.1 GB) (77.0% free) | +-< Physical Store disk0s2 C0215E72-9265-44D0-8B01-01C6DF4EE5F2 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s2 | Size: 121018208256 B (121.0 GB) | +-> Volume disk1s1 47CE903C-053E-41AB-8F64-196CFC3D5A05 | --------------------------------------------------- | APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (System) | Name: Catalina (Case-insensitive) | Mount Point: Not Mounted | Capacity Consumed: 11373838336 B (11.4 GB) | Encrypted: ERROR -69461 | +-> Volume disk1s2 C3EA63AE-7E9D-4709-A334-715B196B089F | --------------------------------------------------- | APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s2 (Data) | Name: Catalina - Data (Case-insensitive) | Mount Point: Not Mounted | Capacity Consumed: 15764234240 B (15.8 GB) | Encrypted: ERROR -69461 | +-> Volume disk1s3 2E5A392F-0A5F-4744-BC22-64C16C8B7895 | --------------------------------------------------- | APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s3 (Preboot) | Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive) | Mount Point: /Volumes/Preboot | Capacity Consumed: 85487616 B (85.5 MB) | FileVault: No | +-> Volume disk1s4 A3D68D5F-909C-458F-BC81-9E6DB904856E --------------------------------------------------- APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s4 (Recovery) Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive) Mount Point: /Volumes/Recovery Capacity Consumed: 532713472 B (532.7 MB) FileVault: No -bash-3.2# diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1 Volume on disk1s1 failed to mount This appears to be an APFS Volume; note that locked APFS volumes will not mount unless unlocked (e.g. "diskutil apfs unlockVolume") -bash-3.2# MBP boots ok-ish, login screen presents user icons (even hidden user) instead of username/password field as configured in captured image, (so something gets reset) and NONE of these local users can actually login because password is not accepted. Reboot to Recovery does not list any users at all (and Catalina & its Data volumes cannot be mounted either) Anybody has any idea why it behaves that way? (apart from Apple design of course) and how to possibly "fix" it? Thanks sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 Nobody? Not a single person? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2736915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 Anybody has any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2737680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 Attempting impossible... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2739713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 Anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2752016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky12 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Maybe can help you https://gist.github.com/darwin/3c92ac089cf99beb54f1108b2e8b4b9f https://support.blackbagtech.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030983771-Creating-a-physical-decrypted-image-of-Mac-with-T2-chip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2753868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) Not really, the first link was what I already went through. As mentioned, I have NO issue creating image & restoring it on NON-T2 hardware (using a single USB stick for the whole operation) As to the other link: https://support.blackbagtech.com does not seem to even exist any longer (can still pickup text from archive.org), seems to have been swallowed by https://www.cellebrite.com/en/support/ Anyway, it talks about making unencrypted image using MacQuisition (not something that I would be using!) Aired: December 16th, 2020 Digital Collector 3.1 is the new face of MacQuisition with an expanded reach But in my case I already HAVE unencrypted image (from NON-T2 hardware) I am only trying to restore it to T2 hardware! sebus Edited April 11, 2021 by sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2755266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 Bump... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344913-t2-mac-apfs-image-restore/#findComment-2757156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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