Clone iMac to MBP, from TM backup. Best method?

Hi,
We have a new iMac (OS 10.8x) in the office which is used for processing shipments (print labels, invoices etc)
The iMac has Parallels & Win7 on it because its required to also run FedEx software for label printing.
The iMac is backed up using Time Machine.
We would like to clone this iMac onto a MacBook Pro (2.66 15" Core2Duo) so that if anything were to happen to the iMac, we can simply connect the MBP & continue working.
The MBP currently has 10.6 clean install.
What is the best way to go about duplicating the entire iMac onto the MBP, including parallels & Win7?
Do we need to upgrade the MBP to 10.8 first?
Thanks for your advice

Does it make sense to backup from one partition to another essentially on the TM drive in addition to backing up my other drives or should I exclude those?
That would make little sense unless you're concerned about accidental deletion of a file/folder on those volumes. If not, then exclude those volumes.
One of those partitions contains my Tiger system clone, but I don't think I want a backup of a backup. Do I?
IMHO that would make even less sense, and it almost certainly should be excluded.
It's mostly a matter of common sense. A backup is 1) to protect against the possibility of a hard drive going bad. If the volumes in question are on the same drive as the TM backup, if the drive goes bad it's all gone, so there's little point in having TM back them up 2) to protect against accidental (or deliberate but mistaken) deletion of a file. If that's a concern, have TM back up the appropriate partitions.
Regards.

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Sorry in advance... this may seem frustrating to some of yall. I became addicted to Apple because stuff just works, and I don't need to know the gory details of a computer to make it sing.
I am gearing up to receive a new MBP 15". I currently had a original MBP that died in surgery, so Apple is sending a new MBP to replace it. I have a complete/current backup on TC. How do I go about restoring the entire thing. I've only used TC to retrieve a deleted file, which was pretty easy, but what about an entire system?
Also, I just want to copy my data, but not the entire contents of the old system... I am not sure I am explaining this properly, but I don't want all the potentially corrupt, old, settings/systems files that bogged down my old machine. This will be my 3rd Mac, and when I got the second one, I felt like it copied over all the crap that I didn't want. I just want my documents, contacts, photos, and music. The only 3rd party App I use is Adobe CS3, which I can reinstall via the instal disk.
Am I just misunderstanding the process? Does Migration Assistant give you options to just copy data you want but not system files/settings/etc. Is there a way to "scrub" the stored data so my new machine runs smooth from the start?
In a nutshell, how would you Mac Jedi transition to a new machine?
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Phil.
Message was edited by: Phil Mutz

Phil,
OK then, "easy" it is! I'll offer some tips on doing some "spring cleaning" after the restoration instructions.
First, decide whether or not you want to erase the new machine's hard drive and reinstall yourself. I usually recommend doing so, because some machines ship with incipient disk errors, and one can customize the installation this way. Regardless of whether you do or not, the rest of the procedure remains the same.
1) When you start the machine, or restart after a format/reinstall, proceed through the Setup Assistant using the exact same username and short name that you had on the old machine. When you are logged into your new account, enable the "root" account, then log in as root.
2) In the root account, navigate to the "Users" folder. Select the entire contents of this folder, specifically including your newly created (and pretty much empty) HOME folder, and place the contents in the trash.
3) Control-click (or right-click) the Time Machine icon in the Dock, and choose "Browse another Time Machine disk" from the menu. Find your old Time Machine backup. Navigate within the backup to the "Users" folder, go one step "back in time," and select the entire contents there. SPecifically, this should include your old backed up HOME folder. Restore the entire contents to the local "Users" folder.
4) Typically, this is all one needs to do, but there is the possibility in your case that the UID for your new account does not match the UID for the files from the backup. The following will preemptively cover this possibility. Still in the root account, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. At the prompt, type the following, followed by a <RETURN>:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R username:staff /Users/username</pre>
In the above command, you will replace all instances of "username" with the short name for your own account. If your short name is "fred," for example, you will type te following exactly:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R fred:staff /Users/fred</pre>
After pressing <RETURN>, wait for the prompt to return. When it does, quit Terminal.
5) Since you are concerned about "cruft" having accumulated in your HOME folder, there is one more step we will take. Navigate into your restored HOME folder (you are still using the root account), into your "Library" folder, and find the "Caches" folder (/Users/HOME/Library/Caches). Select the entire contents of this folder, and place them in the trash.
6) Log into your new account to test that everything works correctly. You may see some things like Dock icons for apps that are not yet reinstalled appearing as question marks, or you may have to re-select your Desktop picture, but everything else should be functional, and should appear just as they did on your old computer. If everything seems OK, log back into the root account, empty the trash, then log out of and disable the root account.
Scott

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i have a (logical, so xml) backup from a UCS cluster. Someone accidentialy deleted a service profile. I know i can import the logical config but other things have changed and i want to just import the missing service profile.
I could edit the XML file (yuk), delete all other stuff and import.
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Michael

Michael,
Restoring bits of a backup is not easy and can cause issues if not done correctly.
How many Service Profiles are you trying to restore? If few, it would be faster/safer to just manually re-create them. If many, then I would suggest you download a new logical XML backup, and cut and paste the SP config from your old backup into the recent one, then re-import it with the "Merge" option.
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Anyone?
Let us get home from work first
I see my daughter's old iMac still has the "kids sports" calendar showing up with all the info still showing on her iCal, but she is subscribed to that calender versus syncing with it. I'm not sure if she has it set to manually refresh or automatically refresh.
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Before upgrading to Mountain Lion, I would strongly suggest installing the maximum 8 GBs of RAM.
Correct and reliable Mac RAM can be purchased from online Mac RAM sources Crucial memory or OWC (macsales.com).
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/8566DDR3S8GP/
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Macademia82 wrote:
I've just upgraded my girlfriends 13" mbp from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It was behaving a little strangely and being sluggish so I erased everything before the upgrade.
It's usually not a good idea to upgrade a computer that's having problems. They may get fixed, but more often they'll get worse.
'All other files and folders on Macintosh HD'.
Those are other files, not in any user home folders, besides system files. On most installations, they're just a few Help files, but if you've installed things or created files at the top level of a drive, they weren't migrated.
Also, because I backed up again after the upgrade, Migration Assistant automatically selects the last backup to migrate from instead of the one that has the missing files. Is there a way to select which backup file to use from my external drive?
No, unfortunately. You can only do that with a full system restore.
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If you used the +Migration Assistant+ app, however, the user accounts may not be recognized as being the same ones, so may not have permission to see and restore from the backups.
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Hey all,
Does anybody out there have any tips/best practices on backing up the OVM Repository as well ( of course ) the VM's? We are using NFS exclusively and have the ability to take snapshots at the storage level.
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backup/recovery of the entire VM Guest
single file restore of a file within a VM Guest
backup/recovery of the entire repository.
The single file restore is probably the most difficult/manual. The rest can be done manually from the .snapshot directories, but when we're talking about having hundreds and hundreds of guests within OVM...this isn't overly appealing to me.
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Please find below the response from the Oracle support on that.
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This is ridiculous.
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2) Mount the NFS export created above on another server
3) Them create a compress file (tgz) using the the relevant files (cfg + img) from the Repository NFS mount:
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OVM_EL5U2_X86_64_PVHVM_4GB/vm.cfg
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27300_01/E27309/html/vmusg-repo.html#vmusg-repo-template-import
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27300_01/E27309/html/vmusg-vm-clone.html#vmusg-vm-clone-image
Edited by: user521138 on Sep 5, 2012 11:59 PM
Edited by: user521138 on Sep 6, 2012 3:06 AM

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