Re: Backup Software & Entourage 2004
- From: "Barry Wainwright [MVP]" <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:59:43 +0000
On 6/1/06 22:45, in article BFE432EA.36C8D%drjchamberlain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Joseph Chamberlain, DDS" <drjchamberlain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/6/06 2:13 AM, in article BFE3F35A.8C9CF%barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Barry
> Wainwright [MVP]" <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> It is probably worth pointing out that there is theoretical risk in copying
>> the database while the Daemon is running it is possible that not all data
>> has been written from the Daemon's file buffers, and the database that is
>> copied is therefore slightly corrupted.
>>
>> Having said that, the minor risk entailed here would not (does not) prevent
>> me
>> from taking backups of my data every day I would rather have to restore a
>> slightly damaged database than lose everything in a disk error!
>>
>> I suppose the best of all worlds would be to have retrospect close all office
>> apps and quit the daemon before it did it's back up run, then start things up
>> again afterwards. I don't use retrospect, but I believe it has an option to
>> run a script before and/or after a backup run?
>>
>
> Barry:
>
> And how can one quite the daemon before running Retrospect ? Is there a way
> to do it without restarting the system ?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Joseph Chamberlain
>
>
With an applescript:
Tell app "microsoft database daemon" to quit
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