Exactly. My lazy ass shaves every 2 to 3 weeks when it starts itching. In the summertime more often since a beard sucks when you try to wipe your sweat off…

Not sure about mac drives but I’d rather do a bit-for-bit image from the drive if possible and work from there. If you find some data has been missing from a regular copy attempt you still can resort tot the image to extraxt it from there.