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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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#120476

On 12 Jan 2019, Simple Simon wrote
(in article <q1bv6a$1e1h$1@gioia.aioe.org>):

> I am upgrading my 2011 Mac Mini to one of the new models.
>
> I intend to use the data migration assistant to copy the data over.
> Now the old mini will not run Mojave and will only upgrade to High
> Sierra whereas the new one will come with Mojave.
>
> I presume this will not be a problem. The new system will stay as Mojave
> with just my data/account added?

Do you have a _full_, bootable, backup to an external drive? You should. 
Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! and many other backup and imaging products 
will make one.

If you have one, just attach it to your new machine and let Migration 
Assistant copy over your data, apps, accounts and settings. It’s easiest to 
do that as part of the initial setup of the machine. At the end of operations 
you will have the OS which shipped with the new machine plus your old data, 
apps, accounts and settings. You can then kill anything you don’t want from 
the new machine. If you accidentally kill something you want to keep, restore 
it from the backup.

Please note that you can use a Time Machine backup to do this, but that it 
will take a Very Long Time to complete the operation. Time Machine works well 
for getting a few items from a backup. Not so well for restoring everything 
from a volume.

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#120491

In message <0001HW.21EB00A700B37AFA70000C4C32EF@news.supernews.com> Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
> Please note that you can use a Time Machine backup to do this, but that it 
> will take a Very Long Time to complete the operation.

No longer than doing the same thing from a bootable backup or from the
current system.

> Time Machine works well for getting a few items from a backup. Not so
> well for restoring everything from a volume.

Nonsense.


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#120502

On 13 Jan 2019, Lewis wrote
(in article <slrnq3mros.pb7.g.kreme@Snow.local>):

> In message<0001HW.21EB00A700B37AFA70000C4C32EF@news.supernews.com> Wolffan
> <akwolffan@zoho.com>  wrote:
> > Please note that you can use a Time Machine backup to do this, but that it
> > will take a Very Long Time to complete the operation.
>
> No longer than doing the same thing from a bootable backup or from the
> current system.

in my experience, 50% to 100% longer.
>
>
> > Time Machine works well for getting a few items from a backup. Not so
> > well for restoring everything from a volume.
>
> Nonsense.

Nah, just what I’ve seen. Some people only have Time Machine backups. It 
always takes a very long time to recover an entire volume from them.

Recovering individual files/folders is quick and easy. Recovering the whole 
volume, not so quick.

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#120535

In message <0001HW.21EBDB5700E6BC8D7000065902EF@news.supernews.com> Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2019, Lewis wrote
> (in article <slrnq3mros.pb7.g.kreme@Snow.local>):

>> In message<0001HW.21EB00A700B37AFA70000C4C32EF@news.supernews.com> Wolffan
>> <akwolffan@zoho.com>  wrote:
>> > Please note that you can use a Time Machine backup to do this, but that it
>> > will take a Very Long Time to complete the operation.
>>
>> No longer than doing the same thing from a bootable backup or from the
>> current system.

> in my experience, 50% to 100% longer.

Nope. No longer at all.

>> > Time Machine works well for getting a few items from a backup. Not so
>> > well for restoring everything from a volume.
>>
>> Nonsense.

> Nah, just what I’ve seen. Some people only have Time Machine backups. It 
> always takes a very long time to recover an entire volume from them.

Restoring many GB of data DOES take a long time. Especially from spinning
rust. Double especially so from 540rpm spinning rust.

> Recovering individual files/folders is quick and easy. Recovering the whole 
> volume, not so quick.

Of course not, you are talking orders of magnitude more data.

Doing a time machine restore of all of your data is faster, and SAFER,
than doing so manually, and about the same time as restoring from a
clone.

Try timing it sometime instead of relying on your incorrect impressions.

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If you write the word "monkey" a million times, do you start to think you're
Shakespeare? -- Steven Wright

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#120508

On 2019-01-13, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Please note that you can use a Time Machine backup to do this, but that it 
> will take a Very Long Time to complete the operation. Time Machine works well 
> for getting a few items from a backup. Not so well for restoring everything 
> from a volume.

Incorrect. I've migrated data from Time Machine backups as well as from
Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper clones, and there's little or no
appreciable difference in the overall speed of the migration as far as I
can tell.

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