[DM-MUG] superduper

[Matthew W.]

Run Disk Warrior then Archive & Install preserving Users & Network  
Settings. Update to desired Mac OS X version afterwards. Minimal  
impact, maximal output.

Mw

On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Michael R. Hoffmann wrote:

> 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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