> 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 -- 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/>
