Good point about the restart. Too bad there's no way to suspend Entourage & the Daemon's operations for a short period, then do a block level backup.
With Barry's solution (the previous message), is there a way to restart both applications (En+Daemon) after the backup has completed? Regards, - Steve ----- Original Message ---- From: William Smith <[email protected]> To: Entourage Help Page mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:09:44 AM Subject: Re: Time Capsule On Sunday 1/11/09 5:08 AM, "Nunez Steve" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone here using a 'sparse bundle' to store their Entourage database file? > After wondering why each hour my Time Machine backup was several gigs, I > tracked the problem down to the Entourage database. > > A quick search turned up two possible solutions: > > 1. Exclude the database from the Time Machine backup and use a block level > backup mechanism like rsync or JungleDisk to backup that file. > 2. Create a 'sparse bundle' and put all of the MS Identity files on it. > Apparently this allows a form of incremental backup. > > Is anyone aware of any other solutions to this problem? Any other clever ways > of backing up the Entourage DB in a space effective manner? No solution will be great simply because Entourage must be quit during the backup or else the Database backup will be corrupt. I'm on a laptop and so I use the paid version of SuperDuper! to create a local backup at 9:00 p.m. every evening to a local disk image. It has the ability to run pre and post scripts, which I use to quit the Database Daemon and restart it after the backup. Then Time Machine will backup the disk image wirelessly. I have my Entourage Database excluded from Time Machine backups. Dave Nanian told me during a Twitter conversation that he's looking into adding sparse bundles to SuperDuper! at some point in the future, which would work even better. Still waiting for this, though. -- bill Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk> Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck> YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected] YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
