Comments on: Time Machine. A giant leap backward. http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/ the collective thoughts and web works of adam merrifield Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bobby http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/comment-page-1/#comment-692 bobby Fri, 09 May 2008 12:21:01 +0000 http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/#comment-692 <p>thanks for that. about to do the same but with a b/u using ccc. good words. will heed.</p> thanks for that. about to do the same but with a b/u using ccc. good words. will heed.

]]> By: admin http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/comment-page-1/#comment-691 admin Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:25:51 +0000 http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/#comment-691 <p>@Daniel; That is the same as using migration assistant (in Utilities or when installing a new OS) which went off without a hitch with the exception of the bsd tags and touch data not remaining intact (CC Cloner actually preserves very little of this data if any at all). Getting a copy of the user account form one machine to the other was never the issue and in fact I was successful moving accounts from a G5 to a Mac Pro, then a G5 to another G5 and finally a G4 to a G5. After which I was able to just throw a disk from a G3 directly into the G4 and was finally done. So no, account swapping was not the issue. Syncing a newly swapped account with an identical account at home was where the trouble came and mostly because the touch data was altered entirely on the recently swapped account while the account at home had what was truly the newest files. So not to say you were missing the point of the whole article but you kind of did because the account swapping was not the issue at all.</p> <p>FYI, see this chart to gage how accurate each backup/cloner software is: http://inik.net/node/151</p> @Daniel; That is the same as using migration assistant (in Utilities or when installing a new OS) which went off without a hitch with the exception of the bsd tags and touch data not remaining intact (CC Cloner actually preserves very little of this data if any at all). Getting a copy of the user account form one machine to the other was never the issue and in fact I was successful moving accounts from a G5 to a Mac Pro, then a G5 to another G5 and finally a G4 to a G5. After which I was able to just throw a disk from a G3 directly into the G4 and was finally done. So no, account swapping was not the issue. Syncing a newly swapped account with an identical account at home was where the trouble came and mostly because the touch data was altered entirely on the recently swapped account while the account at home had what was truly the newest files. So not to say you were missing the point of the whole article but you kind of did because the account swapping was not the issue at all.

FYI, see this chart to gage how accurate each backup/cloner software is: http://inik.net/node/151

]]> By: Daniel http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Daniel Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:06:25 +0000 http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/#comment-690 <p>if you wanted your g5 to be a copy of your g4, just clone it. take Carbon Copy Cloner ( a free app from the internet) and start up the g5 in firewire disk mode. connect the computers with the firewire cable, and use Carbon Copy Cloner on the g4. Select to copy the g4 and the destination to go to the g5, then click clone. after about an hour or two, you can start up your g5, and it is the same as the g4! If your g4 didn't have leopard, you could install it on your g5 and have the same everything! (apps, bookmarks, files... this is how I got Mac OS X Leopard on my PowerBook G4 800MHZ (lower than min, requirements but still works fine)</p> if you wanted your g5 to be a copy of your g4, just clone it. take Carbon Copy Cloner ( a free app from the internet) and start up the g5 in firewire disk mode. connect the computers with the firewire cable, and use Carbon Copy Cloner on the g4. Select to copy the g4 and the destination to go to the g5, then click clone. after about an hour or two, you can start up your g5, and it is the same as the g4! If your g4 didn’t have leopard, you could install it on your g5 and have the same everything! (apps, bookmarks, files… this is how I got Mac OS X Leopard on my PowerBook G4 800MHZ (lower than min, requirements but still works fine)

]]> By: admin http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/comment-page-1/#comment-689 admin Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:29:55 +0000 http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/#comment-689 <p>@steeple, yeah but not the simplest solution by any means. Any other half decent backup suite can restore at the click of a button.</p> @steeple, yeah but not the simplest solution by any means. Any other half decent backup suite can restore at the click of a button.

]]> By: steeple http://adam.merrifield.ca/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/comment-page-1/#comment-688 steeple Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:30:05 +0000 http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2007/11/30/time-machine-a-giant-leap-backward/#comment-688 <p>boot from the leopard install disk , use time machine restore, it then has full root access</p> boot from the leopard install disk , use time machine restore, it then has full root access

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