[ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's (non-Linux)

[Keith R. Watson]

At 17:05 3/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry to pollute the list with non-Linux stuff, but, ...
>
>The info you guys gave me on backups and restoring has been very helpful. 
>I was able to do a full backup from my laptop to a Samba Server, and set 
>my son up as well. Restores - well, that's a different story. Need to scam 
>a usb-drive to create emergency diskettes for my Win2K laptop and my son's 
>WinXP laptop. Although Mondo and Mindi looked like a VERY cool thing, and 
>does backups and bare-iron restores on dual-boot PC's. Think that's the 
>next on my list. You can burn an emerency boot CD and restore from there. 
>(yeah, think it's time to play Mondo and Mindi - unless there are other 
>suggestions).
>
>Anyway - the church I go to got new PC's for the office, and asked for 
>help moving apps and data off the current PC's and on to the new ones. I 
>thought of a few ideas, based on things we discussed on list and personal 
>disasters ;-)
>
>1. Do a hardware and software inventory on current PCs
>2. Do a hardware inventory on each new PC
>3. Set up a Samba server
>    3A. Do full backups from each PC
>           or
>    3B. Do partial backups of My Documents folder on each PC
>
>4. Install apps from on-site CD's (yeah, right! Couldn't locate the 
>original CD's and licenses last time!)
>
>5. Restore My Documents folders from Samaba server
>
>Since I seriously doubt if we'll be able to locate original CD's and 
>licenses, the other thought is to backup from the current PCs and restore 
>to the new ones (if that's possible), then change drivers to match new 
>hardware. That's probably a bad idea (out-dated anti-vir, unlicensed 
>software, lots of junk from several years of surfing).
>
>If you were migrating a small office, would the first list of actions be 
>the best bet? Can Ghost backup a running PC and transfer to a different PC 
>and give you a working system?
>
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You can use ghost to migrate and existing installation to new hardware. 
What a operating system are you trying to move?

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836