How do I get from here to there?

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,
 
I can not get a folder to be shared from 10.2 Server so that the 10.1 Mac's can see it. I can share a folder from 10.1 that the 10.2 server sees but not the other way around.

I went into Workgroup Manager, clicked sharing, click share points, and clicked the "share this item" box.

One problem -- maybe -- is that I have two ethernet adapters. One is the "local" ethernet, the other goes out to my cable modem. From the clients, I put 10.0.0.1 which is the address of the "local" ethernet adapter on the server. I can ping that address.

I've tried stopping all the things that might be getting in the way like firewall and natd. Still no luck.

Do I need to hold up a dead black cat?

Thanks,
 
Sorry for not having an answer...
i was just wondering about the use of the word "laptop". I have always felt a connection between that word and the pc's portable computers (like, either you have a powerbook, or you have a laptop.) but now i just realise that since the iBook, it's no longer a usable definition. hmm... So maybe i have to swallow my pride and start to use the 'laptop'-word. or maybe portable. just felt it looked odd. proceed with thread:)
 
If you have sufficient space on the server, you could use the Disk Copy utility to create a compressed disk image of the laptops hard drive. It will probably be a slow process, though. I'm not sure if disk image will allow you to image the startup disk though, so you may want to whip up a bootable OS X CD with disk image on it just for the task of backing up.

Otherwise, I'm sure there are plenty of commercial backup solutions available.
 
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