From: victoria Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i will need to back up all the info off of my Lombard to the Emac.
what will be the quickest way ?. what will be the safest?.
If it had been a Pismo I would have said FW target mode, but the Lombard only has USB, so I'd say Ethernet without a doubt.
Exactly.
Bring up AppleTalk between the two computers and use the built-in File Sharing.
IF the Lombard is running OS 7/8/9, then turn on File Sharing on the eMac. Mount the eMac's HD on the Lombard then copy what you need to the eMac drive.
IF the Lombard is running OS X, then turn on File Sharing on the Lombard, mount its HD on the eMac and copy files from there.
...The trick is that OS 7/8/9 limits the speed of File Sharing to 50% of your CPU. So if you use the Lombard as the file server, it will be slower. But if you use the Lombard to drive the copy -- with the Finder in the foreground, it will be faster! :) OS X does not have this problem.
I also recommend copying the files in chunks, a few folders at a time. Don't just drag the whole HD icon over. AppleTalk can be a bit twitchy; if something dies, it's easier to figure out whats partial and delete a bit than to have to delete everything and loose all that time.
FWIW, - Dan.
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