Might also mention the problem if you are including Entourage in Time Machine Backups.
The main issue with Time Machine and the Entourage database isn't 'only' because it is backed up every hour filling up hard drives,(with Entourage, every time you send or receive a single message, the whole database is changed, and will be backed-up the next time), but because the database daemon is running at all times and could do some garbage collection during a copy and end up corrupting your copy. While this seems to be a helpful tip, at this point, I wouldn't trust the backups it creates. And the likelihood of a backup being corrupted is directly proportional to the size of your database. As the database increases, the amount of time the system requires to copy that file increases, thus more time is allowed for the daemon to corrupt things. Microsoft has confirmed that the Office 2008 database gets corrupted by Time Machine backups. See the Microsoft KB article here: <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946961>. Note the line in the "More Information" paragraph that says, I quote, "If Time Machine starts an automatic backup while Entourage 2008 is modifying the user database, the backup process may damage the backup copy of the user database." The only option is to exclude the Entourage database from the Time Machine backups, and back up your database via other means (when Entourage is not running). Maybe with Office 2011 Microsoft will break up that monolithic database into something TM can back up. Cheers, Ronni On 14/09/2010, at 9:38 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Yes,..I can now see why it's called EntouRAGE :o) > > Kind Regards > Daniel > > > On 14/9/10 9:34 AM, "Mark Secker" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> As my work place rolls out "semi mandatory" adoption of Exchange mail with >> Entourage as the only officially supported mac mail client I've already >> started to see this problem from users and have, myself, had issues with a >> corrupted database. >> >> Outlook on Windows used to be the one and only "legit" program I genuinely >> despised... It has now had its position as arch uber-evil foulware replaced >> by its mutant mac cousin. >> >> >> On 14/09/10 7:56 AM, "Rob Findlay" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I heartily endorse this attitude. I explain the monolithic database problem >>> particularly with reference to how it uses up space in TIme Machine Backups. >>> >>> On 14/09/2010, at 7:38 AM, Paul K wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> It's my life mission to remove every single install of Entourage from >>>> client machines at work. For the above reasons and more. >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
