On 12/1/06 17:25, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> 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 > That's not right. The daemon handles all traffic into and out of the database. Entourage neither reads nor writes to it directly, but passes all of it's requests to the daemon. I've posted off a correction to the site's webMistress. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting <http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html> -- 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/>
