Re: Will MS ever drop the concept of ONE database? by mmmmark
mmmmark
Thu Jun 23 07:53:16 CDT 2005
I'm lazy, so I just clone my internal harddrive to an external firewire
drive and have it run incremental backups on a regular basis to keep it
current. This way I don't even have to pick and choose what to back up. I
also alternate drives in my external enclosure every few weeks so that I
really have 2 backups in the unlikely event that one fails.
<h.reininger@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1119477763.848359.221730@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for the helpful tips, I was aware of those. But what would you
> do, if your database was 2GB and if you changed as much as a comma and
> everything, all 2GB of it, needed to be backed up again?
>
> There SHOULD be a better way! That's why we are on a Mac, isn't it?
>
> Cheers, Herbert
>
>
> mmmmark wrote:
>> Not a clue about those chances. But...did you know that you can drag any
>> folder to the desktop and it will make an .mbox file? You can backup
>> these
>> files individually as needed and can import them by just dragging into
>> the
>> Entourage window.
>>
>> An enterprising individual _might_ be able to automate the backup process
>> with an Applescript, but I'll leave that question to someone who knows
>> Applescript.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>> <h.reininger@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1119453441.066445.282430@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> > What are our chances to see a database in Entourage we can actually
>> > manage in it's individual items, instead of having one (potentially
>> > huge) chunk?
>> >
>> > I really would like to move only my account to another Mac and not all
>> > other stuff, or have Retrospect backing up only select folders, or
>> > avoid to loose EVERYTHING in case the database gets corrupted?
>> >
>> > What are our chances?
>> >
>