[CUBE] what's the drill again? New HD...

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-12 00:54, "Matthew Herrebout" <mherrebout at real.com> wrote:

> Got a Seagate 2MB 120GB. What's a good way to copy over data?
> 
> a) CCC entire current drive (30GB) to 120, re-install OS X.2, update to
> latest OS version?

That would probably be the easiest solution. Archive and Install after
cloning the entire drive, as Hal suggested.

> b) install OS X.2 clean on 120, update to latest OS version, painstakingly
> copy necessary Mail, prefs, etc over?

It's not all that painstakingly; everything is contained in the /Users
folder. So, after a clean Jaguar install on the new drive, just copy the
Users folder from the old drive:

# sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Volumes/<old drive name>/Users /Users

You will have to reinstall all your applications, though.

> The point of this post --> Is there a painless way to copy data so that the
> new drive has all my users, files, preferences on it, yet has a nice clean
> updated OS? I'm so-so at command line and want to avoid Permissions Hell,
> Users Hell and Invisible Files Hell.

Well, that's where it gets a little tricky. Most likely, the user IDs on the
new install won't match those on the old one. Permissions shouldn't change,
so no trouble there. You'll want to give the users on the new system proper
ownership of their files again. So, for each user, you'll need to reset
their Home folder's ownership:

# sudo chown -R <user>:staff /Users/<user>/*

> I have an external FW case to put the new drive in.

That'll make things a bit easier. You can then install everything on the new
drive, boot from it to test, and only after you've verified it all works
right, can you swap the drives and have everything set up for you. All the
time, you'll have all the data backed up on the old drive, for safety's
sake.

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