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

[Jonathan Glass IBB]

Also, check out PartImage from http://www.partimage.org/

Think Open Source ghost.

Jonathan

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:18, Greg wrote:
> 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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