[DM-MUG] superduper

[Michael R. Hoffmann]

This discussion hits home as I recently used CarbonCopyCloner to  
migrate my server 10.4 to a new larger drive with mirroring. All went  
well & works well, except that, I cannot instal system upgrades now.

I had thought that using Cloner would avoid this problem.

Does anyone know what's going on? How to correct it?

Thanks.

Very truly yours,
Michael R. Hoffmann
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On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Matthew W. wrote:

> Yes, Disk Utility is a fine tool. I've had problems using it from  
> the boot/install DVD in late Tiger and Leopard, and it has a slight  
> learning curve, but once you figure out the routine, it's actually  
> just as easy and useful as CarbonCopyCloner or SD!.
>
> I, too, am befuddled occasionally by the "kruft" that Migration  
> Assistant brings over. I'd like a LOT more granularity in choices  
> for this. In addition, it sometimes takes two tries to get it  
> right. It's a useful tool that I've not seen the like of anywhere  
> else, but it has its problems and knowing a little UNIX never hurts  
> if permissions get toasted. Ah, well, job security! I still  
> recommend it.
>
> Mw
>
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>
>> Just thought I'd add to the conversation, that as fine a product  
>> as SuperDuper is, you can clone a drive quite nicely using nothing  
>> more than Apple's own Disk Utility. SD may add some bells and  
>> whistles I'm not aware of, but I've always had more than adequate  
>> success with DU.
>>
>> On the subject of upgrade methods, I just went through a Leopard  
>> upgrade on my dual G5. I used the Clone, Erase/Install, Migrate  
>> method. It worked well except for one oddity I noticed because I  
>> was having trouble installing newer drivers for my audio  
>> interface: Migration will bring over more kruft than I thought,  
>> since it did bring over at least the kernel level drivers for the  
>> interface, and while I was poking around I noticed I still had  
>> parts of Virex lurking on my system even though it's been  
>> deprecated for years now. To fix my inability to upgrade I ended  
>> up having to manually move some things out of /Library/Extensions  
>> and Startupitems - that was messier than I thought it should be.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Darcy Baston wrote:
>>> Well that's odd. I've been using SuperDuper with Western Digital  
>>> drives for more than a year and haven't had any problems, minus  
>>> one WD drive that died on me. When SD starting choking with it  
>>> (after working flawlessly with it for 8 months), I tested the WD  
>>> drive on a WinXP and WinVista machines and it wouldn't work on  
>>> their either even with OS driven file copying. It kept having  
>>> read/write errors and eventually stopped functioning altogether.
>>>
>>> On Feb 23, 2008, at 8:45 PM, John Eller wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> >Is that documented by the software developer, or did you use an  
>>>> external drive that it had trouble with?
>>>>
>>>> bought a western digital drive.  didn't work.  then read  
>>>> somewhere (developer's site? read me? not sure, sorry) that the  
>>>> software doesn't work with all drives.  the drive works with the  
>>>> software that comes with it.
>>
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