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Hello guys,
New customer of SoftRAID and OWC. Thunderbay 4 is working really well, unsure why I didn't do this a long time ago. I had a few early issues but read online on this forum and overcame them by booting into the recovery part of Mac OS (Monterey) and opting for reduced security as the pop up for allowing OWC as an identified dev didn't come back up - I think it did the first time I installed, but I didn't click 'ok'
Question - Can I now go back into the recovery and revert back to the normal apple security? Or do I have to use reduced security forever now?
Thank you :)
Posted : 27/01/2022 5:36 pm
Intel, reducing security was a problem in Catalina, early releases.
M1 macs have entirely different security and every macOS install on the system that wants to load a third party driver, must set the reduced security. there is no way to avoid that for a system extension at present.
There should be a way for (certain) third party drivers to be installed in the future on macOS without reducing third party secutiry. But as of today, there is not.
Posted : 27/01/2022 5:45 pm
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That is good to know thanks and I have done that, and its working well. What I meant was, do you have to leave the security settings reduced, or, once you have it all working properly as I do, and have checked the box saying 'allow Other World Computing...' can I go back into those system settings and 'increase' the security again? Or shall I leave it how it is now with the 'allow user management of kernel extensions from ID Developers'?
Thank you again!
PS - I can always ask this on another sections. But, what would you say is the best option for automated backups of the Thunderbay? I have a 16tb Drive (almost 18tb of the thunder bay config) I can use for this.
Posted : 28/01/2022 3:36 am
You must leave this setting, or M1 will block all third party drivers, including SoftRAID. Apple is intending to put in a solution for this, but it won't be in Monterey, my suspicion is not until macOS 14, as they have not released the developer kit yet to let developers start modifying their drivers.
We are working on an alternate solution also.
For backing up, there are lots of backup applications, it depends on whether you need incremental, hacker detection, etc. Applicaitons like SuperDuper/CarbonCopy Cloner are great to schedule automated backups and they increment the back ups. CCC has an "archive" option, to keep older versions of files, space allowing.
You also should consider off site backup, either cloud (Acronis/Backblaze), or some way to isolate your volume data, as hackers now take a strategy of encrypting all backups, before encrypting your files for ransom. Crazy world we live in.
Posted : 28/01/2022 11:42 am
