Left sidebar of Disk Utility.app switch to "Show All Devices". You must be booted into some other system than your main system. This can be done comfortably from Disk Utility.app. Source DMG must not contain any APFS Volume with APFS snapshots.
Play well with current Disk Utility.app, so you have to drop to command-line and force using legacy method of restoring the " APFS Volume Groups", a new feature introduced in Catalina does not Source of restore operation must be a synthetised disk mounted from the DMG. There are major tricks how to make it work, the second one quite recent and third one is its consequence: Trick 1 This information is relevant for Catalina (I'm currently running macOS 10.15.1). it is possible to restore this DMG image into empty APFS container and get a bootable copy of the original system.Needed for complete restore (the DMG contains OS, OS Data, Preboot, Recovery and VM volumes)
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it is possible to create a DMG image from existing APFS container with macOS Catalina installation including metadata.This took way too many hours of my life I will never get back. I upgraded my late 2014 Mac Mini withĪ shiny new 1TB SSD. Today I wanted to move existing APFS-resident macOS Catalina installation to a new disk.
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