Sonja Ray: > ... 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...
Then you're extremely paranoid compared to me, as I back up only every few months when the mood strikes me. But I've been thinking about doing better more and more lately, and trying to figure all the angles. Setting up a cron task seems to be a quite reasonable approach -- though it isn't very practical for my technically-averse colleagues. (Is there a higher-level way of creating a periodic task, say, with AppleScript?) One niggle with this method is that it requires the machine be left on, or at least not sleeping. Here in earthquake and power-shortage country (U.S. left coast) it _seems_ better to sleep the machine when possible. (I'm currently participating in a lively thread on the Unix section of the official Apple discussions, trying to figure out what exactly constitutes "sleep", is there a "doze" mode, how to confirm that regular cron tasks have been performed, what happens if you never run the standard housekeeping cron tasks due to sleep, and so on. No firm answers yet.) One more issue: You don't seem to be quitting Entourage to do this backup. Maybe you quit each night? If not... Seems to me I've had past trouble with file locks preventing MUD read access while the app is open, but I could be wrong. In my office, running at 5:30 am would certainly guarantee no user intervention issues, but what about incoming email? No problem for dial-up, but for users with DSL or cable modems, there might be a problem with a collision between incoming messages and backup processes. Thanks for introducing me to "ditto" -- I hadn't seen that before. Thanks, Henry -- 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/>
