HT202406: Restore macOS Server from a Time Machine backup
Learn about Restore macOS Server from a Time Machine backup
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by Strontium90,Jun 17, 2013 4:10 AM in response to APPLEFREAK207
Strontium90
Jun 17, 2013 4:10 AM
in response to APPLEFREAK207
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Servers EnterpriseReinstall OS of painstakingly use Pacifist to extract all the pieces from the base installer and the latest combo update.
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Jun 17, 2013 5:17 AM in response to APPLEFREAK207by MrHoffman,As you've discovered, deleting random hunks of an operating system to fix problems doesn't usually work all that well. First, get Time Machine or some other backup tool going, as that'll be your recovery path should there be an error during the recovery. In the unlikely event something (else) goes wrong with the recovery here (whether some other corruption or a failed reinstall or otherwise), you don't want to lose your data.
In addition to the paths Strontium90 mentions, you can sometimes recovery Safari from an external copy of the same version of OS X; from another Mac running an identical version of OS X, or from a copy of Safari stored elsewhere. One of those other copies of Safari can be stored in the recovery partition, if your version of OS X is new enough to boot into that. (That's basically the reinstall path.)