Obviously, if Outlook is closed, the file lock is released and Rdiff-backup can backup the file without error.
So far it seams to be the only solution if the user doesn't have elevated privilege. I will need to automatically close Outlook on schedule and then run the backup process. Windows is very painful. On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:06 PM Yves Bellefeuille <y...@storm.ca> wrote: > Le mardi 10 janvier 2023, 11 h 23 min 50 s EST Patrik Dufresne a écrit : > > > I'm using rdiff-backup on Windows 10 and I want to use it to backup > > the ".ost" files containing the Outlook mailbox. To my understanding > > Outlook is locking these files exclusively and that prevents > > rdiff-backup to copy the file seamlessly. In fact, when rdiff-backup > > tries to backup these files a simple "Permissions Error" is raised. > > Have you tried closing Outlook first? > > Yves > > -- > Yves Bellefeuille <y...@storm.ca> > GPG key 837A6134 at http://members.storm.ca/~yan/pgp.asc > > > > > -- IKUS Software https://www.ikus-soft.com/ 514-971-6442 St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9
