> On 6/8/06 15:25, "Bryan R Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Or you could just sync your machines in the middle of the night when it
>>> doesn't matter if it takes a while to sync the Entourage database. Myself, I
>>> just do it manually when I need top get my laptop up to date.
>>
>>
>> I still have concerns about this. My wife and I both use Entourage in our
>> respective "sides" (fast-user switching), and backing up still makes me
>> nervous. Although I can quit the daemons on my side, apparently I can't
>> quit them on her side automatically before the backup runs, so I have to go
>> over and quit them manually.
>
> You most certainly can, you just have to authenticate as an administrator
> first.
Pray tell, how? I know about "sudo killall", but I've gotten the impression
that that's much rougher on the app than "tell app ... to quit" in
AppleScript. (Although no one's been able to confirm nor deny that...)
>> I'm really afraid that SuperDuper! will be copying her database when her
>> Entourage fires off the "Send and Receive All" schedule, and the backup will
>> end up destroyed.
>
> A backup is just a file copy. I have multiple e'rage users backed up
> throughout the day, and all use Exchange, which means essentially a non-stop
> send & receive all. I have 8 other IMAP accounts and one pop account in
> addition to the Exchange account, and the backup goes fine. SuperDuper would
> have to be doing some really stupid stuff to cause a problem here.
That's not what the last item on this page says:
http://entourage.mvps.org/backup.html
- B
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