A question about rsync

[John Abreau]

On 7/23/07, Flaherty, Patrick <pflaherty at wsi.com> wrote:
> The other issue was locked files over smb. Outlook data
> file (.pst?) wouldn't backup correctly because they were opened
> in some odd mode.

I ran into that problem with one of my users a few months ago.
Microsoft has an Outlook plugin that sort of addresses this;
whenever the user exits from Outlook, pfbackup prompts them to save
a copy of their Outlook.pst file. Then when you run backups,
there's an extra copy of Outlook.pst that's not locked.

It's not a perfect solution, and it won't help much if the
user never exits from Outlook, but it's better than nothing.
A better solution would be to have Outlook auto-save a backup
periodically, but I haven't run across any plugins that do that.

You can find the pfbackup plugin at www.microsoft.com; search for

    Outlook 2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup


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