NEED URGENT HELP

[T Crabtree]

Thanks for the reply.
I don't do the backups, but the person that does types
this on the command line:
'save_mt' in the /appl/bin

That is supposed to backup everything to floppy
(/dev/rfd0135ds18). 


--- "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Crabtree" <tcrabtree21 at yahoo.com>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:53 AM
> Subject: NEED URGENT HELP
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need from anyone with old school FilePro
> knowledge.
> > I need to restore an old installation of FilePro
> Plus
> > version 4. It is on SCO UNIX Release 3.2v4.0y. I
> know
> > this is very old, but all company files from 1992
> on
> > are in this program, and replacement at this point
> is
> > not an option. I need to get this restored as soon
> as
> > possible. I have been working on it for three
> days.
> >
> > My problem is FilePro itself. I have 5 discs (the
> blue
> > ones from back when FilePro was from The Small
> > Computer Company). In UNIX, I used the sysadmsh
> > utility to untar the contents of the discs, which
> puts
> > the files in /appl/fp. It also puts some files in
> > /tmp. I also have the last backup the company
> made,
> > and those files are untarred to /appl/filepro.
> >
> > It is at this point that I am lost. Running "p"
> > doesn't do anything. I have to run "./p" to get
> into
> > FilePro, but it doesn't recognize the files in
> > /appl/filepro. I get errors when I try to run the
> name
> > of the company menu (e.g. ./p ndsmenu)
> >
> > It says "****System Error Occurred ****"
> > "Cannot access menu"
> > "/appl/fp/menus/ndsmenu": No such file or
> directory
> >
> > I am lost at this point. The files I need to use
> are
> > stored in /appl/filepro. My /etc/default/fppath
> file
> > has three lines in it:
> >
> > /appl
> >
> > /appl
> >
> >
> > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? I
> don't
> > think I have installed FilePro Plus correctly. I
> need
> > help.
> 
> The backup needed to include /appl/fp as well as
> /appl/filepro
> so that the following things that are usually
> customized are part of the 
> backup:
> /appl/fp/menus
> /appl/fp/lib/config
> /appl/fp/lib/edits
> /appl/fp/lib/*.prt
> 
> Anything else can be replaced from a fresh install
> and/or deduced.
> The menu's and the config file are the biggies.
> Can't really invent those.
> 
> However, on the plus side, they don't change very
> often so you don't need a 
> *recent* backup of them, almost any old one will do.
> Do you have an old copy 
> somewhere? Maybe right on the same machine in an
> alternate directory?
> 
> Without the menus you can access the files directly
> which may be only good 
> enough for looking at data. Definitely you won't
> have any preconfigured 
> reports and accounting posting routines etc...
> 
> How were the backups made? What script, what
> commands in the script? If we 
> know that we can tell you how to read the contents
> of the backup to see what 
> all is in it. Sysadmsh is not really a good idea for
> this. If it's a tape 
> and you don't know how it was made (maybe it was an
> fp menu choice and the 
> fp menus are gone?) then there are a few reasonable
> guesses that won't hurt 
> to try. like:
> tar tvf /dev/xct0 2>&1 |grep menus
> or
> cpio -ivtB </dev/xct0 2>&1 |grep menus
> for starters
> 
> Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  -- 
> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
>
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