I played with migrating to a new Macbook using my Time Machine backup. It seemed to work, but something about the permissions were wonky. For example, I had my Pictures directory with lots of background images, and none were accessible by the screen saver after the restore.
I ended up using the Migration Assistant instead, which took a lot longer but moved everything correctly. -Adam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:58 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As was mentioned already, SuperDuper will also work, but that won't >> "defrag" the drive and will copy over any broken files or permissions. If >> you go with SuperDuper, I'd recommend running a disk verify and repair >> anything that it finds before swapping drives. >> > > This sounds FUDdy... > > (1) "won't defrag" --- SuperDuper does not do a block level copy but file > level, therefore it *will* defrag, unless the filesystem design is broken > (in which case restoring from Time Machine as such will *also* not defrag). > I have seen no evidence of this kind of design flaw in HFS+. > > (2) SuperDuper can do a verify and repair permissions before a backup. > Check the backup options. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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