command line options for the personal folders backup tool?

[Guest]

Need to find a better (read less resource intensive than Veritas DLO)
solution for backing up Outlook PST files. Management wants us to implement
the Personal Folders Backup Tool. Ok is there any way of scheduling this to
backup without user intervention? Are there unpublished command line
switches that can be used to fire this thing after hours?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Need to find a better (read less resource intensive than Veritas DLO)
solution for backing up Outlook PST files. Management wants us to
implement the Personal Folders Backup Tool. Ok is there any way of
scheduling this to backup without user intervention? Are there
unpublished command line switches that can be used to fire this thing
after hours?

I predicate my coments with the statement that NO backup tool can back up
Outlook PSTs reliably as long as PSTs remain open; i.e., as long as people
leave Outlook running when they go home.

If you're looking for an easy way to back up PSTs while people aren't there,
just copy their PSTs to some other folder. All done. That is, in fact,
what PFBACKUp does: it simply copies the PST on a user-defined schedule that
gets checked as Outlook closes. Outlook must be closed in order for
PFBACKUP to do its job. Since it's an Outlook add-in and is actually
executed as a result of closing Outlook, I'd be mightily surprised if it has
any switches, published or otherwise, or, in fact, any command line
interface at all.

 

[Guest]

Brian,

Thanks for your help. We were using Scheduled Tasks to reboot the whole
office at 1:00 AM then run NTBACKUP to capture the pst files. Worked fine
for a while. Then we began having profile corruption issues. Our people
would have to shut down before they could log on in the mornings. This issue
was intermittent and passed around the office like a cheap hooker and was the
main reason we went away from this plan.

Do you know of a simple way to close Outlook programmatically from a batch
file or logon/logoff script? Similar to the way that add-on programs have the
ability to ensure that Outlook is closed before installation. Once closed,
then we could safely run the copy script.
Your thoughts?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Do you know of a simple way to close Outlook programmatically from a
batch file or logon/logoff script?

Sorry, no. I'm neither a script nor a batch file writer.