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Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave

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On 2019-01-13, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
>> I've still got installers for applications going way back to
>> the System 6 days of the original Mac.
>
> In Christ’s name, WHY? What bloody purpose is there to keep installers for 
> apps which can’t run on anything other than decades old equipment? I’ve 
> got old Macs, including a beige G3 and a Quadra 840, but nothing that’ll 
> run System 6. And there’s no way that I’d fire up installers that old 
> even if I had them, that’s what full backups are fore.

I have a huge archive of installers on my 48TB Drobo array going back
decades. The Mac folder alone is ~630GB in size. I also keep old
equipment running or in storage for nostalgic and sentimental reasons.
My very first Mac, a Mac SE my late father bought named Zippy, still runs:

<http://zippy.kicks-ass.org:9997>

I've got an Apple IIe, a Lisa with its 40 MB ProFile external drive and
spare parts, several other beige Macs, and others in my small
collection. I could open a small museum if I wanted to. : ) 

> I run backups of all my systems automatically. Carbon Copy Cloner runs every 
> night at 02:00. The first time it runs on a particular machine, it can take 
> hours... but I’m asleep and don’t care. When I wake up, I check to see if 
> there were errors in the backup; if so, I fix them. (No errors today 
> according to CCC’s logs. No errors since July last year, in fact, and that 
> error took less than 15 minutes to fix.) I then disconnect the backup drives. 
> If you don’t have at least one full, _bootable_ backup, you’re living in 
> a fool’s paradise.

I wouldn't advise booting on a volume that holds your precious
backup data since by doing so you risk data loss. If your hard drive
dies, replace it, boot into macOS Recovery, install macOS on the new
drive, then migrate your data from the backup drive when prompted.

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JR

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Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Simple Simon <please.dontspa@me.com> - 2019-01-12 05:50 +0000
  Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-12 19:31 +1300
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-12 01:52 -0500
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-12 06:58 +0000
      Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Simple Simon <please.dontspa@me.com> - 2019-01-12 11:01 +0000
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-12 08:58 -0500
      Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2019-01-12 08:49 -0800
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-13 09:36 +1300
          Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-12 17:38 -0500
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-12 13:43 +0000
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2019-01-13 00:18 -0500
      Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-13 19:37 +1300
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-13 01:50 -0500
          Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2019-01-13 07:02 -0500
            Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-13 13:53 -0500
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2019-01-13 06:48 -0500
          Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-13 17:00 +0000
          Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-14 09:14 +1300
            Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-13 16:05 -0500
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-13 16:49 +0000
  Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2019-01-13 00:14 -0500
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-13 17:02 +0000
      Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2019-01-13 15:47 -0500
        Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-14 03:32 +0000
    Re: Data Migration Sierra to Mojave Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-13 22:01 +0000

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