[Casper] using Casper to upgrade to leopard

[John Brenner]

If you are doing domain or OD authentication and the goal is to retain user
settings them you should be able to turn on Portable home directories,
reformat, partition to a restore and Macintosh HD and install.


On 1/25/08 11:35 AM, "John Brenner" <John.brenner at merrillcorp.com> wrote:

> Are you doing domain authentication either AD or OD or are these stand alone
> workstations?  If so you have some options.
> 
> 
> On 1/25/08 11:18 AM, "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 


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