> 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.


I wonder if she's referring to the Alerts Daemon instead?

- B


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