Re: transfer personal data to backup computer

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: transfer personal data to backup computer
Date	2020-11-18 15:31 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<i1kt20Flo1fU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2020-11-18, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> 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?

By transferring your data ifrom your Time Machine backup to the new Mac
using Setup / Migration Assistant, which takes care of transferring all
of you apps, system and network settings, and user data (yes, including
passwords, certificates, user accounts, bookmarks, mailboxes, email
account info, and so on).  

People do this every day, and it works great.  Apple has directions
showing how to do it:

<https://support.apple.com/HT204350>

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JR

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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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