On or near 6/7/04 1:37 PM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 7/6/04 5:32 pm, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On or near 6/7/04 7:06 AM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>>> For the record, please assume bi-weekly backups but having to revert >>>> to something even three days old would be difficult with changes in >>>> calendar and e-mail flow. >>> >>> Nothing beats a good backup. You could also relieve the problems of missing >>> mail by setting your POP accounts to 'leave mail on server for 7 days', >>> changes to calendar and other aspects are a little harder to get round. >> >> Backing up your Entourage identity folder (inside Microsoft User Data:Office >> 2004 Identities) daily is also a great precaution; it takes only a few >> minutes. I use an AppleScript scheduled to run during the early morning in >> cron. > > If you are going to back up the database, make sure the script quits all > office apps AND the database Daemon (tell app "Microsoft Database Daemon" to > quit) before you take the copy. Taking a copy with the daemon still running > is likely to create an incomplete copy because file buffers in the daemon > have not been written back to disk.
I keep forgetting to mention that! My cron job does that. -- 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/>
