Moving to new laptop from .mac backup
My iBook (running Tiger) died last week, but fortunately I was able to quickly backup the entire hard drive using the .Mac Backup program beforehand. Now I've got a MacBook Pro coming (running Leopard), and I'm wondering how best to do a setup and restore. Should I...
1. Simply restore the entire backup, replacing the existing Leopard install, and then reinstall (upgrade) to Leopard
2. Expand the backup to an external Firewire drive, then use Leopard to setup the computer from that drive (assuming that's possible in Leopard)
3. Partition the new hard drive and restore my old drive to one of the partitions (the primary initial problem being that my old drive has about 110 GB of data and the new drive is only 160 GB total)
4. Restore in some other creative way I haven't yet considered
5. Take my new computer to the Apple Store and let them figure it out.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, since I'll be new to Leopard. I've got to get back up and running in the quickest way possible, but yet I don't want to do something that will cause me more trouble/work later on.
Tim
I don't know anything about .Mac but I'd be surprised if it provides you with a full bootable backup.
You wrote <I don't want to do something that will cause me more trouble/work later on. >
That being the case I would strongly suggest that you procure for yourself a FireWire external drive, and on a regular basis make a complete bootable clone of your entire hard drive. It's the only real insurance for that rainy day when something horrible happens and your computer crashes.
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