[Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion

[Formsmaven]

You might consider getting a copy of SuperDuper! and an external drive for it. SuperDuper creates a bootable hard drive, unlike Time Machine, and you can simply boot from the SD! copy of your laptop and clone the whole thing over to the Mac Mini. It will replace the entire HD with the clone, system, preferences, apps and everything else. I have done this for years. It is very simple. It's also a snap to recover the entire drive. I couldn't get by without SD! I use TM automatically, and back up manually to SD! weekly or so.

N2ERN

On Dec 10, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Stephen Prior wrote:

> Apologies for the OT nature of this posting.
> 
> I have a macbook running Lion happily and now would like to upgrade my
> (Intel) Mac Mini from Snow Leopard.  I would really like to strip everything
> off the Mac Mini and then do a fresh install of Lion, which I have saved on
> a memory stick.  I have an up-to-date backup in Time Machine, and could also
> completely copy all of the files to another external 2TB drive.  I also have
> Windows XP running in Bootcamp and would prefer not to have to go through
> all of that installation again although I imagine that since it is in a
> separate partition that it will remain untouched.  My itunes and iphoto
> collections are on a separate USB hard drive. I would back all of these up
> to DVD-rom first.
> 
> That's the background, my query is this; can I use what is stored in Time
> Machine to restore the applications?  Also, is there anything I've not
> thought about?  I have been looking through the various forums but haven't
> found an answer that satisfies me, hence asking here, because I know that I
> have an intelligent audience!
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Stephen G4SJP
> 
> 
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