Re: Moving Post.Office-Solution

Hear Hear to your GUI comment.
I find it hard to understand why Tenon, writing for a Mac audience, failed
to put such essential things as Backup and Restore, and reading logs, in
their GUI interface - did they forget why we became Mac users in the first
place?
Mike

-- Michael Rosenwood
Manager of Information Services
Clarkston School District
847 5th St. Clarkston, WA. 99403
Phone: 509-769-5505 Fax: 751-0449
E-Mail: RosenwoodM@xxxxxxxxxx
Cellphone: 509-751-6723


> From: Bear Weiter <posessed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:35:34 -0500
> To: <post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Moving Post.Office-Solution
> 
> Just as a follow up, I thought I'd let everyone know what I did to mess up
> the initial move. Where the instructions say:
> ------------
> 2. Restore the three file system directories (containing the Post.Office
> executables, the Post.Office account and configuration information, and your
> mailbox information), as well as the configuration file from your backup, on
> top of the current versions.   This can be performed by moving the
> "po_backup.tgz" that was created in your home directory during the backup
> process to the root of your hard drive and then issuing the Terminal
> command: 
> sudo tar zxvfp /po_backup.tgz
> ------------
> You should make sure you're executing this command from the root level of
> your drive (cd /). I must have executed it from my home directory, because
> it actually untar'd everything there, which I never noticed. Then I somehow
> got stuff untar'd into the proper directories, but then not, and in the end
> I just had a big old mess.
> 
> I finally removed everything I could find PO related this morning, and I
> still wasn't able to reinstall PO (it kept wanting to upgrade it). So I
> re-ran the command above to untar my backup, this time making sure I was at
> the root of the drive, and it seems like everything untar'd and is now
> running fine.
> 
> Of course, I'm a bit scared now that I might have deleted TOO much, but I'll
> cross that bridge when I get to it. I have to say that I'm not too afraid of
> the terminal, but give me a good old GUI any day. :)
> 
> --Bear
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