Hi Tony (and everyone else who replied), 

I had posted the same question to the SchooIT list as well. Everyone felt it 
was a bad idea. 
I had suspected that cloning PPC to Intel wouldn't work. I definitely knew it 
wouldn't work with Linux. The question in my mind was if everything in Mac OS 
and the bundled apps was a fat binary. If so, having the server be identical 
when swappjng out made sense and a clone should work. 
I am aware of rsync and many of the other tools people mentioned as well as 
Apples feature of importing settings from another computer. I am not sure if it 
would import config files for server services so I think I will use rsync to 
get the config files for server applications and their associated data. 

Dave


David Tisdell. Music Teacher
Browns River Middle School
[email protected] (e-mail)


>>> Tony Harris <[email protected]> 5/20/2009 3:31 PM >>>
If the server OS has the same "import your settings" stuff as the workstation 
OS, that would be the way to go as it I believe it brings in apps and their 
settings.  You cannot just image a PPC OS to an Intel.  I don't believe it 
would have the dual-mode (fat) binaries for the drivers and base OS, and 
honestly you wouldn't want it to for storage/efficiency reasons.

--On Wednesday, May 20, 2009 02:57:46 PM -0400 Dave Tisdell 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I am planning to replace an xserver for a client. The current server is PPC 
> based and the replacement is an Intel architecture. The current server is 
> running leopard (10.5). Does anyone know if I can use Carbon Copy Cloner from 
> a PPC Mac to an Intel Mac? It would be a quicker configuration if I can.  
> Thanks.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Tisdell. Music Teacher
> Browns River Middle School
> [email protected] (e-mail)
>
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