Re: moving profile

[email protected] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:00:01 +0000
>>   
>> But setting SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA will screw up the  locations for the FF profiles, these may be
>> migrated at a later date,  the mailer must be migrated first, therefore it's best to to set this  statement locally in both
>> the migration .cmd file and in the .cmd file  that wil kick off the migrated mailer itself (not the SMPMW118 program,  it
>> will stay where it is now. She's a command line hound using 4OS2 as  the command shell rather than the command.com
>> that's shipped with os2 /  eeCs.
> 
>  You do not need to migrate profiles. Copy your \profile tree to new location and use all profiles from there. Then when
> you wish a new profile, add one. Mozilla profiles are not fixed, they are searched below wherever mozilla_home is.
> 
>> No, but She suspects that the whole mozilla tree plus backup of the WSeB  OS would be larger than 2Gib - She have a
>> smal plugin in FF 10.O.2 and  17..0.11esr that sets the history to 99999 days instead of the standard  7 days without
>> this plugin.
> 
>  What is the issue with 2gb? When you do a backup are you copying the entire file tree? Do you expect to lump an entire
> partition into one file?
> 

With the old BackAgain/2 program, She backed up the WHOLE system every 
Saturday and only backed up things tha's have changed after the FULL 
backup, i.e. an incremental backup. A FULL backup took about 2 hours 
onto a DATT74 tape but the Incremental backups took about fifteen 
minutes each. As She have learned the hard way that backups are 
necessary. She have used various OS/2 backup programs, the latest is 
Back Again/2. But that old program can ONLY backup 2GB on ANY media 
except to a DAT74 tape. But newer backup programs for eCs don't have 
this barrier, so backing up the whole system, i.e.every partition on 
Saturday plus backing up only stuff that's changed after the Saturday 
FULL backup. So if for example WSeB bombs so hard it will not boot at 
all, just change to an eCs OS where the backup program is also 
installed, reformat C: (WSeB) and do a TOTAL restore of WSeB, run CHKDSK 
C: /F and reboot WSeB and it will boot up nice as you please. Had to do 
this to get back a functioning WSeB, but that didn't happened often, 
thanks the Great Mother for that!

>> Btw, do you have any experience with WarpIN program? Her WarpIn in WSeB  will not work, so can it be deinstalled and
>> reinstalled without losing  it's data base content? If not, then She can contact Netlabs to ask them  for support of this
>> vital program - She want to "hot up" WSeB with  modern software like ACPI, AHCI, GenMac or MultiMac, the new FAT32
>> IFS,  the latest DaniS506 package and perhaps other stuff so that it will  function properly on the new box - so much is
>> tied up with WSeB, so She  wants to run it as the primary OS and also having eCs 2.1 and eCs 2.1  Business Edition (got
>> it for free plus the regkey by a guy at Mensys).  And a decent backup program that's visible both in WSeB AND at least
>> on  of the eCs'es so She can do a restore if WSeB bombs so hard that only a  restore of the latest fresh backup will cure
>> it, doing it from one of  the eCs'es. She hav learned the hard way why backup/restore is needed.  When She worked on
> 
>  Warpin, never use it directly. Use WpiView which extracts files from .wpi and move files wherever desired.  
> 
>  datbas_D.ini is the database for Warpin, copy it over should work. 
> 
>  Backup apps have 2, plus 2 more have not tested yet. Give an example of how you wish to backup, describing target and
> source.
> 
>         Cal
> 
> 

On the migration tack: Which parameters can SMPMW118 be invoked with? 
She need the whole set of them. She will go the route of firing up 
SMPMW118 in offline mode and bring up the Profile manager. In another 
OS/2 session, fire up SMPMW118 in offline mode, having set 
MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA, then bring up the profile manager 
and creating the new profile Brekke with the desired settings. But when 
this new profile is created, how does one migrate the Adress Book and 
Mail&Newsgroups, i.e. which parameters must be entered to do the job?


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