> From: Diane Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:22:32 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Back up of Database file
>
> 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/>
You're nearly as bad as I am. I also leave mail on the server for a couple
days, and run my Retrospect backup almost daily, or every other day at a
minimum. On top of that, I'm so paranoid about the Entourage database, I
have a cron script running that makes a zipped-up copy of the whole MUD
folder, appends the date to the end of the name, and places it in the
"Users" folder just above my home folder, every morning at 5:30 a.m. If my
database should ever get corrupted beyond repair, I can just unzip that
morning's cron result, collect my e-mails from the server again, and I'm
back in business in about 5 minutes.
With the date appended to the name, the new backup doesn't overwrite
previous backups, so every few days I delete all the zipped backups except
the latest one, so that they don't pile up.
I also use the zipped backup to transfer my MUD easily from desktop to
laptop periodically. Makes it easy to keep rules, sigs, accounts, etc.,
synced on the laptop.
--
Sonja Ray
"...there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as
simply messing about in boats....or with boats....In or out of 'em, it
doesn't matter."
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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