System Migration - new feature

bobw

The Late: SuperMacMod
MacFixIt has learned that the just-announced updated Power Mac G5 models are the first to include Apple's new "System Migration" feature. Apple's website states:

"Apple simplicity lets you add a Power Mac G5 to your creative studio without days of downtime configuring a new system. The new Mac OS X setup assistant helps you effortlessly move user accounts, system preferences, documents and applications from an old Mac to a new Power Mac G5 -- and the transfer is FireWire fast."

This feature evidently works in the following manner:


On first boot, you're given the opportunity to connect a FireWire cable between your new G5 and your old Mac.
The Setup Assistant walks you through various types of files on your old Mac -- user folders (and accounts), applications, system add-ons, etc. -- and lets you choose whether or not to transfer them to your new G5.
The Setup Assistant then proceeds to transfer the appropriate files and completes the setup process.

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040609135313868
 
That is pretty sweet. Too bad that program doesn't work with windows (to a certain extent). Obviously programs wouldn't transfer, but perhaps some other things.
 
diablojota said:
That is pretty sweet. Too bad that program doesn't work with windows (to a certain extent). Obviously programs wouldn't transfer, but perhaps some other things.
Windows XP has a ver similar feature...

I just used it last week. You had to install something on both the source and target machines. It worked but was sort of lame in that it only seemed to transfer the files for whicht he target computer had pplications for. I hadn't installed Visio on the new machine yet, so none of .VSD viles were tranferred.

Quite possibly the problems were "user error", but I trust Apple will make this simple enough for Mom. :)

Doesn't OS X Server already have something like this? There was an article in the new MacWorld that mentioned this as a tangent to something else.
 
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