[Casper] Migration Assistant

[Kathie Iorizzo]

Steve,

Just to explain what we do here.  We have two partitions.. Boot and  
Data.
Boot is our standard boot drive with our image.  Data is their data.  
We have a symbolic link to the Users folder on Data.  When we re-image  
laptops, we re-image only the boot partition. We advise users to back  
up prior to re-image in case the hard drive fails.  This way we are  
not touching their data in any way.


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Kathie Iorizzo
Lower School Technician
The Latin School of Chicago
kiorizzo at latinschool.org
312.582.6136



On Jun 10, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Steven Diver wrote:

> Okay, I have some odd behavior here, wondering if anyone else has  
> seen the same thing. If so, were you able to resolve it?
>
> I have setup a nice, clean Mac OS X v10.5.7 base install  
> image...fully patched and updated, with only and Administrator  
> account. I can create and deploy the DMG to machines with no problem.
>
> Here's where my issue comes in. Over the summer, we have roughly 300  
> teachers on laptops who bring their machines in to have them  
> reimaged with Casper. However, before we do that reimage, we are  
> nice enough backup and reinstall their data for them. The process as  
> it stands right now, is that they bring their laptop with v10.4.11  
> installed to us, and using Migration Assistant (over the network -  
> with a network cable between the 2 machines) we migrate it to a  
> second laptop with v10.5.7 on it. This works no problem. Their  
> v10.4.11 laptop is then wiped and imaged with Casper to bring them  
> up to v10.5.7, and install all applications. We then want to run  
> Migration Assistant (again via the network - with a network cable  
> between the 2 machines) again to bring the data from that second  
> laptop to the original laptop, both of which are running versions of  
> v10.5.7 that have been installed via Casper. This migration fails,  
> as Migration Assistant only recognizes the the Administator account,  
> despite the fact that the user account and data exists that second  
> laptop. No other accounts are recognized, thus no data can be  
> migrated.
>
> As a test I have installed and updated Mac OS X v10.5.7 on two  
> machines from the install DVD, created Administator accounts on both  
> boxes, and setup a Test account on one fo the machines to migrate,  
> and in that case, Migration Assistant works just fine. It recognizes  
> the Test account and migrates data over without issue.
>
> To be safe, I recreated the v10.5.7 DMG to make sure there were no  
> issues with my base OS, that didn't resolve my issue. So at this  
> point, I am wondering if there is something with Composer creating  
> the OS Package, or something in the deployment of the OS via Casper  
> Imaging. It seems to be something that is happening between those  
> two points.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this? Or more importantly, been able to  
> resolve it?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> --
> Steven Diver, Network Manager
> Adlai E. Stevenson High School / www.d125.org
> Email: sdiver at d125.org / Phone: 847.415.4304
>
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