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The Western Digital My Passport Ultra 3TB disk, for example, works fine as a bootable device when not encrypted. Some versions of OS X have difficulty recognizing USB devices that have been encrypted with FileVault. Why can't I boot from that volume any more? I enabled encryption on my 3TB USB backup disk.

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Reset the password for any other user accounts whose password was reset on the original source.

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Resetting the password while booted from the backup volume will update the encryption key for that user on the backup volume.

Click on the user whose password was reset on the source volume and reset that user's password again.

Open the Users & Groups preference pane in the System preferences application.

You will be required to provide the old password to unlock the volume on startup.

Choose the backup volume as the startup disk in the Startup Disk preference pane and restart your computer.

To update the encryption password on the destination volume: This encryption key is not maintained on the backup volume, and it is Apple-proprietary, so it isn't something that CCC can or should modify. The update that is required is within the proprietary encryption key bundle that macOS maintains for your encrypted volume. When you boot from the backup volume, you may notice that your user account icon is a generic icon, and the text indicates "".

The encryption password(s) on the backup volume will not be automatically updated when you change the password for an account on the source volume. What happens if I change my account password on the source volume? Does the encryption password on the backup volume get updated automatically? If you erased your backup volume as encrypted in Disk Utility, then you will use the password that you specified in Disk Utility to unlock the volume.

Do not attempt to use the Recovery Key or your Apple ID account password to unlock the volume - those passwords will not unlock the volume. To unlock the volume in the future, enter the password to any of those user accounts.

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When you boot your Mac from the backup volume and enable FileVault in System Preferences, you explicitly choose which user accounts will be allowed to unlock that volume. What password do I use to unlock my encrypted volume? Once you have enabled encryption on the backup volume, you can reboot from your production startup disk and the encryption process will continue in the background. Do I have to wait for encryption to complete before rebooting from my production volume? You can enable encryption in the Security & Privacy preference pane while booted from your bootable backup, or in the Finder by right-clicking on your backup volume (for a backup volume that does not have an installation of macOS). Will Carbon Copy Cloner enable encryption on my backup volume? If you want the contents of your backup volume to be encrypted, follow the procedure documented here to enable encryption. Whether your backed-up files are encrypted on the destination depends on whether encryption is enabled on the destination volume. When an application reads a file from the encrypted source volume, macOS decrypts the file on-the-fly, so the application only ever has access to the decrypted contents of the file. No, encryption occurs at a much lower level than copying files. If I back up an encrypted volume to a non-encrypted volume, will the copied files be encrypted on the destination?

My YubiKey authentication device can't unlock my encrypted backup volume on startupĬan I back up an encrypted volume to a non-encrypted volume?.

After cloning to an APFS Encrypted volume there is a 24-second stall during startup.

After cloning to an APFS volume that previously had FileVault enabled, the destination can't be unlocked on startup.

The Startup Security Utility reports that authentication is needed, but no administrators can be found.

I can't enable FileVault, I'm told that my account cannot be used to manage encryption on this Mac.

I restored my backup to another Mac that had FileVault enabled, and now I can't unlock the cloned volume.

Can I create a bootable backup on a pre-encrypted volume? Why do you recommend cloning to a non-encrypted volume first?.

I enabled encryption on my 3TB USB backup disk.

What happens if I change my account password on the source volume? Does the encryption password on the backup volume get updated automatically?.

What password do I use to unlock my encrypted volume?.

Do I have to wait for encryption to complete before rebooting from my production volume?.

Will Carbon Copy Cloner enable encryption on my backup volume?.

If I back up an encrypted volume to a non-encrypted volume, will the copied files be encrypted on the destination?.

Can I back up an encrypted volume to a non-encrypted volume?.