On 4/22/04 2:28 AM, "Stephen Duxbury - Prestset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is slightly off topic but I use a programme called Tri-Backup and am > actually very pleased with it after having used Retrospect for 10 years or > more, but changed over when I went over to OSX. > > My query is that when I am backing up my other macs on the network it does > not seem to back up the 'database' file within the Identities' folder. It > does it on my machine, just the others it doesn't. This very nearly caught > me out couple of weeks ago when one mac downstairs 'corrupted' its database > and wouldn�t fix on that machine. Thankfully my G5 with more oomph and disk > space did it ok. When I went to look on the back up the 'database' file was > missing out of the folder!! I would contact the author to see if there is something about backing up over a network that could be causing the problem. Backing up is not off topic IMO and everyone needs to do this. You don't have to have backup software to accomplish this. Use a Task in Entourage to remind you to back up every xxx days. Quit Entourage and duplicate the Identity folder in the Microsoft User Data folder. Add a date to the duplicate. Be sure to keep some of the old copies around for a while in case the corruption does not show up. I had a corrupt Quicken database and had to go back one year to find a good one. I like to backup every 3 days. I also leave mail on the server for 3 days so hopefully I'm covered. -- Diane Ross Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
