On 7/6/04 10:14 pm, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > I expected you to know that, Allen :) I was mentioning it for the other readers on this list. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <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/>
