SuperDuper or Time Machine?

[Benguitar]

Be careful in that situation. A lot of times, a SuperDuper backup will boot OS X on a different model machine, but it won't always have everything. For example, if you're moving to a new MacBook Pro, the trackpad drivers on the SuperDuper backup of your MacBook may not support all of the gestures, etc.

Hopefully Migration Assistant will kick butt and you won't even have to worry about that!

Exactly.. That is a good thing to be weary of, I have a good feeling though that Migration Assistant will get the job done.

I may make booting up from SuperDuper drive plan C, and make plan B manually dragging and dropping my files where they need to go.

 

[AppleNewton]

I've never really used Time Machine before until now...but its just a "just in case" procedure.
And that way i dont have to dig through my Superduper clones, just pluck out a file and be good to go.

I send my time machine to the time capsule and clone to two drives for super duper (one that is the master back up, the other is a test drive of the current/master to install apps, updates, etc before applying it to the live install) a bit picky but ive had some software updates or installs go a little goofy and some programs that arent fully patched so its nice to revert back.

And Yes migration assistant is fantastic. I used to do Erase & Installs but once I started getting more familiar with Migration Assistant its a great function and feature!


but sounds like you have a good plan, so goodluck.

 

[Benguitar]

I've never really used Time Machine before until now...but its just a "just in case" procedure.
And that way i dont have to dig through my Superduper clones, just pluck out a file and be good to go.

I send my time machine to the time capsule and clone to two drives for super duper (one that is the master back up, the other is a test drive of the current/master to install apps, updates, etc before applying it to the live install) a bit picky but ive had some software updates or installs go a little goofy and some programs that arent fully patched so its nice to revert back.

And Yes migration assistant is fantastic. I used to do Erase & Installs but once I started getting more familiar with Migration Assistant its a great function and feature!


but sounds like you have a good plan, so goodluck.

Thank you, I've used Migration Assistant in a the past a few times, once I had to reinstall from one of my backups because Apple replaced my HD, and Migration Assistant worked perfectly, and then my father got his MacBook Pro's HD replaced and I did the same for him and it worked perfectly.

The one question I have is, when I reinstalled everything for my father, He had already "setup his new Mac" and I went to Migration Assistant after he was done setting up his "new" HD, but my guess is it is okay to plug my external into my new MacBook Pro and then turn it on so it sees the external disk and can just "migrate" instead of "setting up my new Mac"?

 

[AppleNewton]

So you mean, he has his Mac all set up, entered his username and is using it (install complete, etc etc)?

If thats the case; yes you are right you can definitely use Migration Assistant from Applications > Utilities > Migration Assistant.

I believe it works that you can transfer a back up drive full of applications, user settings, network settings, etc to the mac (say you backedup his previous system to an external...you can use Migration Assist. to his new mac and they will be placed there accordingly) or you can even copy your applications from your Mac to his (the both have to be running migration assistant and follow the step by step procedure)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322

 

[FrenchPB]

I just bought a new 1To HD to backup my iMac, MacBook, and external media drive. Thus, should I create three partitions on the new Master Backup drive, or can I just use one ?

If I want to create bootable disk image of the two computers, should I create different partitions, or could I pick which one to boot from at startup ?