• Kerio,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  MobileMe,  Ubuntu,  Unix

    Converting pst Files to mbox

    Large scale mail migrations can be tricky. There is a shareware app that can be used to migrate pst files from the pst format into mbox, which can then be used with Mac OS X http://www.littlemachines.com. If the migration process needs to be automated (they all seem to at scale) then a script could be written to crawl users, finds the pst files and then convert them. Or it could be done on the client side using a self-destructing launchd item. Conversion syntax for libpst would be something like the following: readpst -o /output/folder /server/path/user.pst Before you can use readpst, it needs to be built via libpst on the system that…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Ubuntu,  Unix

    Getting Started with tar

    If we were in the directory Desktop and wanted to backup all the files to a tarball called backups.tar, we could issue this command:  tar cvf backups.tar . The flags here:c creates an archive, v makes the process run verbose and f sets the file name.  The . tells tar to back up the current working directory.  Use pwd if you’re unsure what that is.  As we didn’t tell tar where to put the file it will automagically put it in the working directory.  By default tar is recursive although you can specify an n flag to alter that default behavior.   Now, to display the contents of the tar file we just created,…