[DM-MUG] superduper

Tue Feb 26 17:54:20 CST 2008

What about checking disk permissions and all that?

Stuart

On 26 Feb 2008, at 17:43 , Matt W wrote:

> 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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