Thanks.... I do not let the TM do hourly backup. I tell it when to backup and quit Entourage before starting.
I forgot about the stupid hourly TM timer. On Sunday1/11/09 4:50 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Kriss wrote: > >> Sorry, I don't understand the above or how the TM can corrupt the Entourage >> database. > > If a database is being written to during a backup the backup can be corrupt. > Since Time Machine backs up hourly, the chances of Time Machine doing a copy > while Entourage is being used it pretty high. Besides the stress of copying > hourly the entire database that could be several GB. I remember way back > when Retrospect users would ask about this same problem. > > If you want safe backups 100% of the time. Quit Entourage and the Microsoft > Database daemon first. > > Hope this helps! YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
