Hi Graham
Yes Parallels VMs are generally automatically excluded from Time Machine, or
you'd have to back up a 30GB file every hour even if a tiny part of it had
changed. VMWare Fusion allows the VM to be split across 2GB chunks, which
mitigates this somewhat, but they do tend to be modified a lot.
The USB3 StarTech dock is great, I've got the 4bay enclosure and use it daily.
The USB3/eSATA version which I got rid of has a known fault where the entire
enclosure resets if you switch off a drive, so turning one drive off can cut
the connection temporarily to the other three, completely useless and StarTech
are aware of it but still sell it! The USB3 only version doesn't suffer from
the problem.
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Sam
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On 4 Apr 2014, at 16:09, Graham Street <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to keep this thread updated for anyone who comes across it ...
>
> The migration from my Mac Pro to the new MacBook Pro worked almost perfectly.
> I used the latest Time Machine backup disk, extracted it from the Mac Pro,
> loaded it into USB3 StarTech external dock. The Apple Migration process on
> the new MacBook Pro spotted it on start up. The whole process (moving around
> 350Gb data and apps) was done in around 1.5 hours. Then a bit of authorise
> and deauthorise in iTunes and the whole process was just about done.
>
> About an hour later, after some checks and tests, I realised that none of my
> Parallels virtual machines were there. And that's because they were not on
> the TM backup! So, I pulled those in from a clone of the Mac Pro hard drive
> via the USB external dock and the job was done. I can highly recommend a USB3
> StarTech external dock. Its great for using all those old internal drives
> laying around, repurposing them as backups.
>
> The new MacBook Pro is amazingly fast and so quiet. In fact, the whole home
> office is now incredibly quiet. We've gone from a old Mac Pro with 2x 1Tb
> drives inside and an old 20" Intel iMac - to laptops (MacBook Pro and MacBook
> Air) attached to 27" and 23" screens. Both screens have a Backpack shelf on
> the back of the screen stand. One Backpack shelf holds a 1Tb portable USB3 TM
> drive, and the other a 1Tb drive and the MacBook Air. I use my MacBook Pro as
> a second screen.
>
> Aside from the occasional TM backup murmuring in the background now and
> again, there are no hard drives running most of the time. And no fans either
> (unless I start up a couple of Windows VMs!). None of the old kit was really
> that noisy, but I've never known the office be so quiet as it is now and you
> can literally hear a pin drop. Its quite eerie - as if nothing's working!
>
> Thanks for the advice. Hope my info helps someone, sometime ... Graham
>
>> Sam - MacAmbulance 1 April 2014 21:33
>> Connect via usb3 and migrate from the time machine backup
>>
>> Sam
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>> Graham Street 1 April 2014 21:22
>> I have an old Mac Pro (one of the first Intel ones, running OSX Lion) and
>> I'm about to migrate to a new MacBook Pro with 1Tb flash storage and 16Gb
>> RAM.
>>
>> The Mac Pro has Ethernet and Firewire 400 (and USB2) connections.
>> The MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt and USB3.
>> The MBP can be be connected to a Thunderbolt display so it therefore has
>> Ethernet and Firewire 800 available.
>>
>> I also have a StarTech USB3 external dock and could put the SATA drive
>> holding the TM drive from the Mac Pro in it.
>> And I also have a Thunderbolt to Firewire connector (and a FW 400/800
>> adaptor).
>>
>> Given all the above, what's my best choice to connect the machines for
>> migrating the Mac Pro content/apps to the MacBook Pro?
>>
>> Thanks, Graham
>>
>
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