Clonezilla and others like Ghost worked great. But long before them I was walking around with an external drive that had an image file (.dmg) for each one of the machines profiles I ran in the school. Rule was, if it took more than 10 minutes of my time to deal with, the machine (iMac) got imaged.
Later on when I upgraded our network from hubs to managed 3Com switches, I moved the images to a G4 server where I could boot directly from it over the network and reimage on the the fly - or from the console at the server. Apple had client server management down in the late 1990s. Then they got out of enterprise computing, and all of that fell by the wayside. -D > On Nov 23, 2018, at 7:34 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Clonezilla is the bomb for that. Back in the XP days I kept server copies of > all my classroom systems. I could restore the whole room in 20 minutes. > > Curt > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > It’s times like this that I’m glad I use Macs. > > Youngest son just got a brand new PC with Windows 10. He had the hard drive > from his old machine. How to migrate over? > > No easy way - have to use a third party utility to clone the old drive and > then clone it to the new one. Took the better part of a day. > > I just migrated to a new Mac Pro. I think it too about 10 minutes to move > everything over, and once I logged into iCloud all of my accounts and > credentials came over, too. > > And yes, you should be able to set up a mirrored RAID (1) and once it’s > built, break it. I think. > > -D > > > On Nov 23, 2018, at 5:32 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > > > In theory, Mirroring and breaking the set, (or just unplugging the spinning > > drive once the mirroring is done) should work. I have not used that method > > for cloning, so Ymmv... > > You may need to use a drive utility like gpartd to resize the 500 to 480 or > > less to make the mirroring happy. It may not want to mirror 500 to 480, > > but should be happy to mirror say 470 to 480. > > > >> OK Don via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com > >> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> > >> November 23, 2018 at 4:21 PM > >> I bought a used PC (HP Z420) with a hard drive that has a fresh load of W10 > >> Pro. I want to migrate this OS installation to and new SSD. The Z420 has > >> RAID on board, so can I mirror the two drives (one is 500GB, the SSD is > >> 480GB) to replicate the installation, then break the mirror and remove the > >> old spinning drive and boot from the SSD? > >> > >> Clear as mud? > >> > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
