[CharlesW]

> Apple can. I can’t. Making APFS snapshots requires special entitlements, which they’re not going to give me.

What makes you think that? Carbon Copy Cloner does this, and is made by a small independent developer.

https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/leveraging-snapshots-on-apfs-vol...

[Hackbraten]

They have managed to obtain the special entitlement.

Source: https://bombich.com/blog/2018/03/30/building-better-backups-...

They’re one of two apps in the world who have been granted the entitlement as far as I know. The other one is Time Machine.