Re: WAY OT: Windoze admin help needed
- From: CrashTestDummy <fjbradfordREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:47:33 -0500
Mr. Gates doesn't include any easy way to transfer all of your
files and programs from one PC to another because they know that by
the time you're ready to do that XP will have everything so screwed up
you'll want a fresh format and re-install anyway! At least that's what
I tell everyone.
I'm told it *can* be done, but if you have a lot of crap on your
machine it's actually faster and less of a hassle to just start over.
XP isn't designed to *transfer* to new PCs, and as a result neither is
most of the XP software.
That said, you *should* be able to create a temp folder, copy all
of the storage file folders into it, then burn it to disc and transfer
all of his stored files that way... if you take the folders you'll be
able to restore some semblence of his previous directory tree.
This page may help with the email folders and such:
http://www.pchell.com/support/backupoe.shtml
And likewise, you can find info for his browser "bookmarks" and
such by using google.
Maybe someone else here can offer a better solution, but if it were
me I'd just start fresh on the new system and try to transfer as much
of my existing data as possible after I have the staple software (XP,
Outlook, Firefox, Agent, Office, etc.) already installed. This way
it's just a matter of finding the existing files, and dropping them
into the same location[s] on the new system.
As for backing up the various office PCs, I'll defer to others whom
I'm sure have more experience in that regard.
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:41:12 -0700, HardWorkingDog <harvey@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
About the only dirt bike content I can think of is that XP includes a
little picture of an mx bike in mid jump that you can choose as your
login meme, there, now that's done.
On to the OT stuff. I know some of youse guys make a living doing this
stuff, so if you could just point me in the right direction I'd
appreciate it.
I've become the de facto system administrator at the company I work
for, and I need some help. The main application we run is a POS system
that uses a central database and all our computers are treated as
terminals by the system--that part is out of my hands. I know that
database is backed up nightly. However, the non-POS usage--employee
records, company manuals, sales forecasts and budgets, as well as most
vendor specific customer data reside on the individual PCs used by our
managers and higher level sales staff--about a dozen or so.
The 2 biggest things I'm trying to solve right now are:
1) how to efficiently migrate all the data and file organization from
an old PC to a new PC and make sure all old email, secret love notes,
weird vendor supplied ordering systems with customer data etc. etc.
etc. make it over to the new PC.
2) how to make sure everything (not including the POS database crap
that is not stored on local PC's) is backed up reasonably securely.
If we were running OS X I'd be done. To solve 1) every OS X Mac has a
firewire port, every firewire Mac can be put into target mode which
allows the hard disk to act as an external drive, you connect the
target mode old Mac to the new Mac, copy the Home folder (er,
directory :) and you're done. Or, use a free cloner to simply
duplicate the target drive disk onto the new Mac. Or, use the built-in
Migration Assistant to do it for you.
For 2) I'd get a copy of Retrospect Workgroup, a couple of 750 GB hard
drives, and set the schedule. But we don't use OS X at work...
As far as I can tell, we're all running XP service pack 2, and
everybody is networked on a 100Mbit ethernet system. NOTHING is backed
up currently. One of my salesmen is using a decrepit Celeron 800MHz
system, while a brand new P4/3.2GHz is sitting unused in the
conference room. I've been trying to get his data onto the new
computer and it's just not going. I can't believe there isn't a clean
simple way to do this, after all, people get new PC's all the time.
How DO you migrate everything over? I've run into "Can't do that"
dialogs, etc. when just trying to copy folders manually. There's crap
(i.e. files and folders) EVERYWHERE. I have no idea even if I could do
that whether I'd found everything.
Today I tried using DriveImage XML, but it creates a disk image, and
as near as I can tell you have to put the image onto one partition and
then restore it onto a different partition, and I don't think I can
repartition the new drive without erasing everything and starting
over, a daunting proposition to say the least. And I suspect it
wouldn't let me restore the image to the boot partition, which means
I'd need to create 3 partitions, and from past experience I've found
it's a mistake to have multiple partitions on the primary local disk.
And what software do you recommend for backing up a workgroup of less
than 20 PC's? I'm thinking of a couple of external HD's, rotated
weekly, with both archives and duplicates.
Hopefully I'm just missing something simple here. I can't believe Dell
(where we've purchased most of our newer PC's) doesn't include some
thing to quickly grab all your old data and stuff it into the new
system. Maybe they do :)
Thanks for any help.
Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx
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