Yes, you have to back up the entire MUD folder, or at least the office X Identities folder (best do it all). Since the Database file is so enormous, or gets enormous fairly soon, and is modified every single day, and Retrospect's "Normal" method is to make a new backup of every modified file without over-writing the old version, you will find that you soon run out of hard-disk space if you let it do that.
My Retrospect method is to to a "Normal" backup every night while I'm asleep, except that twice a week it does a "Recycle" backup, which overwrites, instead. It doesn't bother me that it takes longer than a "Normal" since I'm sleeping. And I still get -4 days' worth of "history" before the recycle. I also select which volumes to back up - I don't back up my entire disk. i put virtually everything which any app writes to on my Data partition, with aliases in the correct place (such as MUD folder in Documents folder on my OS X partition) and back up the entire Data partition, so I'm always covered. In order to be able to run a script to back up automatically AND be selective about Volume, you need Retrospect Backup, not Express, which is more expensive. But to do just one or the other (automatic backup by script on your whole computer OR select Volumes but run script manually) you can manage with Express. If you have Jaguar, you MUST get the latest Retrospect Updater for Mac OS X (5.0.236) which finally lets scripts run automatically on schedule again. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Mark Pyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:50:31 -0500 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Backing up emails > > Hi Jud: > > Really? I had no idea. I thought I would see more detailed info than just > that. I guess I was expecting to see each of the folders such as inbox, > outbox, etc. I'm such a newbie at this stuff, it's no wonder. I should > probably back up the entire microsoft user data then? What parts do you > recommend? Thanks. > > > Mark > > > On 11/7/02 11:16 AM, "jud spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 11/7/02 8:11 AM, "Mark Pyles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My question is where are my folders that I created with my email messages in >>> them? Are they stored someplace else? If so, how do I find them and how and >>> what exactly should I backup? Thank you for your help. >> >> All of your data is in those five files. >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
