[ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's (non-Linux)

[Greg]

Ghost by Norton.  I have transferred many pc's that way.  It (for me) has
been reliable and capable.  I hear that now it even does Linux also.  It can
move partition to partition or disk to disk.  I have even used it for
backups.

I think partd (parted ?) is the Linux open source equivalent, but I have no
experience with it.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> griffisb at bellsouth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:05 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's
> (non-Linux)
>
>
> Sorry to pollute the list with non-Linux stuff, but, ...
>
> The info you guys gave me on backups and restoring has been very
> helpful. I was able to do a full backup from my laptop to a Samba
> Server, and set my son up as well. Restores - well, that's a
> different story. Need to scam a usb-drive to create emergency
> diskettes for my Win2K laptop and my son's WinXP laptop. Although
> Mondo and Mindi looked like a VERY cool thing, and does backups
> and bare-iron restores on dual-boot PC's. Think that's the next
> on my list. You can burn an emerency boot CD and restore from
> there. (yeah, think it's time to play Mondo and Mindi - unless
> there are other suggestions).
>
> Anyway - the church I go to got new PC's for the office, and
> asked for help moving apps and data off the current PC's and on
> to the new ones. I thought of a few ideas, based on things we
> discussed on list and personal disasters ;-)
>
> 1. Do a hardware and software inventory on current PCs
> 2. Do a hardware inventory on each new PC
> 3. Set up a Samba server
>    3A. Do full backups from each PC
>           or
>    3B. Do partial backups of My Documents folder on each PC
>
> 4. Install apps from on-site CD's (yeah, right! Couldn't locate
> the original CD's and licenses last time!)
>
> 5. Restore My Documents folders from Samaba server
>
> Since I seriously doubt if we'll be able to locate original CD's
> and licenses, the other thought is to backup from the current PCs
> and restore to the new ones (if that's possible), then change
> drivers to match new hardware. That's probably a bad idea
> (out-dated anti-vir, unlicensed software, lots of junk from
> several years of surfing).
>
> If you were migrating a small office, would the first list of
> actions be the best bet? Can Ghost backup a running PC and
> transfer to a different PC and give you a working system?
>
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