Mixed up on Move to Imac and MacbookPro + Intel PCs

[mixedupPCandMAC]

Hi all, first time caller and not sure if this is the right forum for me, but let's find out: My studio is getting new imac and macbookpro but now I'm confused over simple things like how to back all the machines up. We will have a mix of PCs and Macs now. For example, this post explains what I am trying to do for backup: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=178880

 

As a poster mentioned, I must be insane to have both PCs and Macs. Is this true? The plan is to replace all PCs with Macs over a period of many years, and the Imac and macbookpro is the initial test case. We have about 8 machines total now. As the admin of these boxes I am really looking forward to using OSX but already I have a headache over a simple thing like backups. What to do?

 

Networking is next, but I don't see any problems there. Wondering what Bonjour is however.

 

To help the users migrate I have for many years customized the XP interface with objectdoc and tried to make the XP boxes at least look like MACs, so the tranisition should not be too hard, I hope. I just finished getting the Safari beta on all the windows boxes, for example. (seems to be a few bugs left in that beta, but I will go the safari forum for that).

 

Well, looking forward to hanging out here for the duration. Is this the right forum for me? I was confused over the hackintosh references, as I have no idea what that is (yet). But I am a hacker of sorts, so maybe this is the right place. Looking forward to tearing into the mac-intel infrastructure and seeing what I can screw up.

 

BS in Nepal

[sg]

as a general rule, i'd say 90% of the people here arent really long time osx users and don't really know what they're doing. this place is mostly for people trying to get a hacked up OSX running on standard PCs.

 

there are however quit a few helpful people that are clueful.

 

are you looking at backing up an existing Mac and move the documents/apps/settings to a newer mac? if so there is actually an option when installing 10.4 and up that lets you migrate all data (you choose if you want users/apps/network settings/etc) to be moved over from an older machine or hard drive.

 

bonjour used to be called rendezvous which is basically a zero config network protocol (open source). printers/servers/etc use this to setup services without the user having to know or care about what the actual address is. you'd simply 'browse' or automatically pickup a web server or a printer that is setup to use bonjour (i think the project this is based on is called ZeroConf - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf)

[mixedupPCandMAC]

Thanks SG! No, I am looking for the mac-intel forum for folks using the new macs with XP apps, or have a lan with a mix of machines. I need to develop a daily backup scheme for all machines on the lan, and now I have macs running OSx and PCs running XP and soon Vista (ick). My first problem is to find a software package that can back up Mac disks AND NTFS volumes. And drives with both. What the heck! I barely managed to create a stable backup regime using ATI on the PCs. That took 2 years and several versions of the software before that became reliable. But ATI does not support mac yet, so their support team says. I am starting to think that I may have to have two programs to do backups. Arg. I need the software to be scheduledable and to be able to back up images as full partitions (I think. that's required for PC for anything resembling something reliable). So what do Mac types do? What do Intel-Mac types do?

 

And who are these freaks trying to run OSX on a PC?!? Seems butt-backwards to me, but no offense. I like doing crazy sh&* too. Cheers,

BS in Nepal