We recently purchased 22 new G5s. We basically have 3 groups of users, so I've set up three machines with the software and settings each group would need. I'm wanting to use CCC to clone these 3 computers for the rest of the users in each group. I've been successful in cloning one drive so far using CCC but I have a couple questions and hope that someone out there has worked with CCC and can advise me.
The way I cloned the first machine was to connect the machines using firewire since I don't have access to an external firewire drive. I formatted the target drive and cloned the drive I wanted to the newly formatted machine. This seemed to work fine with a little clean up on the user account and permission settings. I'd also like to make a backup of each machine prior to distributing them to the users. I know I can make a disk image but the resulting image will be too large to burn onto a DVD. Is there a way to compress the image? What's the best way to go about this? I'm getting lazy in my old age and would prefer to have a backup of each machine with all the applications, etc. the way they need to be. Thanks, Beth Fastline Publications Inc. DISCLAIMER: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
