pedz
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Right now I have two laptops with 10.1 and a server at 10.2 (running Mac OS X Server). Currently they are three seperate "environments"; i.e. I have to manually move things from one place to another.
What I'd like to do is the following sequence:
1) Backup both laptops onto the server for now. I don't have a tape drive. Simply mounting the hard drive and dragging stuff over fails because somethings are locked or not readable. I'd like a way for a root process on the laptop to ship things over to the server. On regular Unix, I could do this with tar and rsh (or ssh). But on the Mac, I am not sure if tar will actually move all the bits and bytes.
2) After backing things up, reinstall the laptops from the server. I have a 5 or 10 client license.
3) Set things up so that each laptop has a specified subset of what the main server has. There are two parts to this. If I add a file on laptop A, I'd like for it to migrate magically to the server. The other part is if I install or upgrade applications on the server, I'd like the new stuff to magically move over to the laptops.
I am sure all of this is "do-able" but I was hoping someone could share what they have learned about this type of stuff and point me to the appropriate commands and documents.
Thank you,
What I'd like to do is the following sequence:
1) Backup both laptops onto the server for now. I don't have a tape drive. Simply mounting the hard drive and dragging stuff over fails because somethings are locked or not readable. I'd like a way for a root process on the laptop to ship things over to the server. On regular Unix, I could do this with tar and rsh (or ssh). But on the Mac, I am not sure if tar will actually move all the bits and bytes.
2) After backing things up, reinstall the laptops from the server. I have a 5 or 10 client license.
3) Set things up so that each laptop has a specified subset of what the main server has. There are two parts to this. If I add a file on laptop A, I'd like for it to migrate magically to the server. The other part is if I install or upgrade applications on the server, I'd like the new stuff to magically move over to the laptops.
I am sure all of this is "do-able" but I was hoping someone could share what they have learned about this type of stuff and point me to the appropriate commands and documents.
Thank you,