> On 1/12/06 7:52 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" wrote: > >>>>> I use SuperDuper! to do regular backups on my machine. It's nice in that >>>>> I >>>>> can tell it to run an AppleScript before starting that will quit my >>>>> Database >>>>> Daemon. > > Why do you need to quit Daemon to do a backup? > George
You don't *have* to. The computer will let multiple programs read a file at once. The concern is that Entourage, the Database Daemon, or Office Notifications will write something to the database *while* the backup program is reading it. If this happened your backup could end up in a corrupted state, which defeats the purpose of a backup. According to the note at the bottom of http://entourage.mvps.org/backup.html the Daemon doesn't doesn't write to the database, it only reads from it. That doesn't make sense to me based on what I've read elsewhere, but I'm certainly no expert. -B -- 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/>
