Re: transfer personal data to backup computer

From	Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: transfer personal data to backup computer
Date	2020-11-18 12:31 +0000
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On 18-Nov-2020 at 2:13:38AM PST, "Krzysztof Mitko"
<invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> wrote:

> J Burns wrote:
> 
>>  Before the internet, my personal data was documents. If my computer 
>>  wouldn't work, I could connect my backup disk to any computer that could 
>>  read the disk and had apps that could read the files.
>>  
>>  Now I need passwords and certificates, usernames, bookmarks, mailboxes, 
>>  and email account info, for examples, besides my documents. My current 
>>  Mac and my old one both run Catalina, so if my Mac didn't work, I could 
>>  use Time Machine or a clone of my startup disk to give my latest 
>>  personal information to the old Mac.
>>  
>>  If I upgrade to Big Sur, that will exclude my old Mac. How can I keep my 
>>  various kinds of personal data available for my old Mac?
> 
> Depends on kind of personal data. You can use IMAP to keep your mail
> synchronized between your two computers, you can synchronize some personal
> data (bookmarks, calendars, passwords etc.) via icloud - of course assuming
> you're OK with putting all this into cloud. Software preferences will be a
> problem, because eventually the old versions of apps will stop understand
> preferences written by the new versions - I don't think there's a way to
> overcome that.

I used 1Password v6 to hold passwords and other information. It's not
automatically entered or saved but it is recoverable should I need to supply
license info, passwords, etc to a replacement system.

There's really no way I know to keep a "configuration as code" such that
various system administration tools can reproduce a system.  I could do this
in AWS or on a Linux box or a Linux VM, but automating such an install with
things like network boot, puppet and/or ansible has a way to go.  I heard that
Apple uses Monki as a package manager but don't know how they do that network
boot and automatic configuration part.

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transfer personal data to backup computer J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2020-11-17 22:57 -0500
  Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-18 10:13 +0000
    Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-11-18 12:31 +0000
    Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-18 15:32 +0000
      Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-18 15:44 +0000
        Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-18 16:29 +0000
  Re: transfer personal data to backup computer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-18 15:31 +0000

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