Applescript Migration Assistant with network transfer

Hello,
I have an applescript that opens Migration Assistant then waits for it to finish. This has worked great in the past using firewire, but we want to switch to using the network transfer feature. When you start a network migration with Migration Assistant, it closes all applications including my applescript.
The question is how can I prevent my applescript from getting killed during a network migration or how do I ask Migration Assistant to kindly not kill my applescript when it migrates over the network?
Thanks

ok, found the answer, All i had to do was to re-configure the TC to make it not connected to any networks but ethernet, and migrated. Then, i reconfigured it back again

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