{"id":525,"date":"2009-01-29T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-01-29T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:14:10","slug":"macbook-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2009\/01\/macbook-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

My laptop at Sun was a nice little Mac\u00adBook; light\u00ader than the Mac\u00adBook Pro but power\u00adful enough for my needs. So when I left, I decided I\u2019d buy myself a new Mac\u00adBook, being the path of least res\u00adist\u00adance. In the\u00adory, Apple makes it easy to migrate your inform\u00ada\u00adtion from one Mac\u00adBook to anoth\u00ader. So I stripped the Sun inform\u00ada\u00adtion off the old one, bought my new one, added a couple of gig of RAM<\/span>, and came home full of anticipation.<\/p>\n

The migra\u00adtion was\u00adn\u2019t quite as easy as all that. I installed the Migra\u00adtion Assist\u00adant on the old laptop, con\u00adnec\u00adted the new one with an Eth\u00ader\u00adnet cable, typed in the num\u00adber that appears on the new one into the old one, got the mes\u00adsage \u201cPre\u00adpar\u00ading inform\u00ada\u00adtion\u2026\u201d and waited. 15 or so minutes later, the new one says it\u2019s lost the net\u00adwork con\u00adnec\u00adtion and gives me a new num\u00adber, while the old one pops up the dia\u00adlog to type the new num\u00adber into. I repeated the pro\u00adcess a couple of times, chan\u00adging vari\u00adables (con\u00adnect through DHCP<\/span> rather than dir\u00adectly) with no suc\u00adcess. So I made an appoint\u00adment with the Geni\u00adus Bar in the loc\u00adal Apple store and went in there.<\/p>\n

The Geni\u00adus bar per\u00adson said that there\u2019s a known issue that\u2019s solved by updat\u00ading the Migra\u00adtion Assist\u00adant to the latest ver\u00adsion. She updated the soft\u00adware, but it did\u00adn\u2019t solve the issue; the same prob\u00adlem crops up. She did offer to move everything by hand by pulling out the old disk but I decided I did\u00adn\u2019t feel like wait\u00ading that long in the mall. And I remembered that I had a Time Machine backup at home, which should also work to put the inform\u00ada\u00adtion on the disk.<\/p>\n

Back at home I backed up to the Time Machine, then star\u00adted up the install\u00ada\u00adtion pro\u00adced\u00adure on the new laptop and chose to install set\u00adtings and files from the Time Machine. Then I waited. Approx\u00adim\u00adately six hours later (no exag\u00adger\u00ada\u00adtion; the con\u00adstant mes\u00adsage was \u201ccheck\u00ading Time Machine backup\u201d) there was some error say\u00ading it was\u00adn\u2019t an OS<\/span> X disk, or some\u00adthing like that. At this stage I gave up and decided to just rsync<\/code> my user dir\u00adect\u00adory includ\u00ading my applic\u00ada\u00adtions. That worked just fine and was much quick\u00ader (about 15 minutes start to finish).<\/p>\n

It turns out that rsync on the Mac is a<\/a> little<\/a> con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial<\/a>. There\u2019s more in-depth dis\u00adcus\u00adsion in the com\u00adments to one of Tim\u2019s posts<\/a>. For my pur\u00adposes, rsync worked well; I did take the ele\u00adment\u00adary pre\u00adcau\u00adtion of log\u00adging out on the tar\u00adget laptop first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My laptop at Sun was a nice little Mac\u00adBook; light\u00ader than the Mac\u00adBook Pro but power\u00adful enough for my needs. So when I left, I decided I\u2019d buy myself a new Mac\u00adBook, being the path of least res\u00adist\u00adance. In the\u00adory, Apple makes it easy to migrate your inform\u00ada\u00adtion from one Mac\u00adBook to anoth\u00ader. So I \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMac\u00adBook Migration\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}