[DM-MUG] superduper

Tue Feb 26 17:43:59 CST 2008

Okay, that might be overkill in retrospect, but I hate migrations that don't work. I always wonder what else has gone wrong that hasn't yet shown up.

What do you get when you type this from the terminal:

defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate

It's only going to report your default SoftwareUpdate location and won't do anything scary.

Mw

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Matthew W." <maccelerate at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2008 11:35 PM
>To: Des Moines Mac Users Group <dmmug at dmmug.org>
>Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] superduper
>
>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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