[Casper] using casper to upgrade to leopard

[Smith, William]

On 1/25/08 10:34 AM, "Siddhartha Chadda" <SChadda at oco.com> wrote:

> how do we leverage casper to upgrade to leopard? without loosing user
> profiles? 
> 
I¹d never upgrade machines from one OS to another. Too much potential to go
wrong.

JAMF suggests partitioning drives into three parts: Mac OS X and
applications, a hidden Restore partition and a Data partition for user
folders. Doing this proactively means you never touch the home folders when
re-imaging machines.

We don¹t do that here for no other reason than we just haven¹t been doing it
that way. I¹ve been meaning to create some sort of XCode wrapper around some
snippets of code I use now to back up user folders using ³ditto² into
separate .cpgz archive files, restoring them afterward and reapplying
ownership for each. I¹m surprised I¹ve never found anything for Mac OS X to
³migrate² home folders. Windows has several alternatives.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492
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