HOW TO MAKE A COPY OF MY APFS BACKUP STORAGE?
To start off, when you install an app that isn’t universal but only contains Intel code, your M1 Mac detects that and passes it to be translated into ARM code so Rosetta 2 can then run that app. This is actually performed by a background service named oahd, which also stores the translated code in an .aot file inside a folder with a long and incomprehensible name in the hidden folder /var/db/oah.