Thanks Sam. I had forgotten about that option
David Tisdell. Music Teacher Browns River Middle School [email protected] (e-mail) >>> Sam Hooker <[email protected]> 5/21/2009 10:47 AM >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave, If you use rsync, be aware that there's a Mac-specific '-E' option to preserve extended attributes and resource forks (seemingly still important for some files, even nowadays), and that it does NOT appear to be implicit in '-a'. Cheers, - -sth sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): - ----- "Dave Tisdell" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.5) iEYEARECAAYFAkoVaZcACgkQX8KByLv3aQ10qgCeLdBE0YNq4TN573K+dAhV7tsQ alAAnirMHo16L/f0HqxejT0+ivq7+/pk =dI8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone.
