Re: Backup instructions

[Rick Roberts <rroberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all of you who responded with excellent instructions. I'll 
work on a CRON job for backups today.

Futzing around with this kind of thing is fun when the usual tech 
demands aren't weighing on me; it stimulates my gray matter. But in a 
time crunch, I don't have time to seek Unix help. Tenon, we need a 
GUI for ALL of it, including reading the log files. I know about 
Logmaster and other utilities, but again, in a time crunch . . . I 
need to know there a problems before my end users do.

My company thought it was hiring an expert when they got me, and they 
did . . . with MACS! It doesn't give them much faith to see me 
constantly having to turn to Tenon or the wider UNIX community to 
work out the seemingly endless string of voodoo with our mail server. 
Give us check boxes, drop down menus, pop up alerts, email alerts.

Tenon, please! When I read that ISPs ran on Post.Office, and you guys 
told me an iMac was more than adequate for a workgroup of 20, I 
thought, "Man, this is the server for me." Instead, I have become a 
babysitter, and to make it worse, the business types in my company 
are asking, "Duh, why don't we just get an Exchange server?"

Venting here. I simply wanted a UNIX-strength little mail server that 
would just sit and run and run and run. Instead, I have repeatedly 
dealt with the following:

SMTP that mysteriously stops
Webedge installer that changed my hostconfig file, removing 
references to Post.Office.
IMAP and POP before SMTP can't coexist
Tracking down why we couldn't send mail through Webedge
Relay denied when sending to multiple recipients
SPAM! And using filters slows the server to a crawl.
Being used as a relay by spammers. Still not sure that it's fixed.
Never got a secondary server to work. NEVER worked. Sue looked at it, 
too. NEVER worked! Why?

Sue has been in and out of my machine on numerous occasions and 
assures me there is nothing goofy about my setup. I followed install 
instructions to the letter and sought Tenon guidance all along the 
way. Now I'm so frustrated. I swear if I have another problem, I will 
be forced against my will to get a new mail server. This all makes me 
look like Dumb and Dumber Does Mail to the folks who hired me only 4 
months ago.

Rick Roberts
Atlanta, GA

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 07:36  PM, Marc Kaiwi wrote:

> Hahah .... My sentiments exactly! : c)
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 02:53  PM, Rick Roberts wrote:
>
> > ...I'm a Mac guy. What does "Back up the following items making 
> > sure to maintain permissions and links" mean exactly? What's wrong 
> > with including the syntax?! Argh.
> >
> > Rick Roberts
> > Atlanta, GA
>
> Signed: Marc Kaiwi
>
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