will microsoft's built in backup program corrupt an open session of outlook?

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local pc, no domain, simple workgroup, internet only outlook

I heard that xcopy will corrupt outlook if outlook is open when xcopy is
invoked.
What about using w2k/xp's microsoft backup to backup outlook while it is
left open?
Running backup across the network or locally.
Thank "You".
 
jd said:
local pc, no domain, simple workgroup, internet only outlook

I heard that xcopy will corrupt outlook if outlook is open when xcopy is
invoked.
What about using w2k/xp's microsoft backup to backup outlook while it is
left open?
Running backup across the network or locally.
Thank "You".
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Any sort of copy operation (and basically that is what a backup utility
does) while Outlook is open runs a very great danger of corrupting the
pst file....
 
jd said:
local pc, no domain, simple workgroup, internet only outlook

I heard that xcopy will corrupt outlook if outlook is open when xcopy
is invoked.
What about using w2k/xp's microsoft backup to backup outlook while
it is left open?
Running backup across the network or locally.
Click to expand...

As Gordon says. It won't corrupt the original PST, it just won't make a
proper copy of it.
 
Thank you both.
Now knowing this... any way to shutdown outlook at 11pm (if it is
accidentally left running) so ms backup can auto start at 11:11pm?
 
Use the built-in Scheduler.

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After furious head scratching, jd asked:

| Thank you both.
| Now knowing this... any way to shutdown outlook at 11pm (if it is
| accidentally left running) so ms backup can auto start at 11:11pm?
|
| ||
||| local pc, no domain, simple workgroup, internet only outlook
|||
||| I heard that xcopy will corrupt outlook if outlook is open when
||| xcopy is invoked.
||| What about using w2k/xp's microsoft backup to backup outlook while
||| it is left open?
||| Running backup across the network or locally.
||
|| As Gordon says. It won't corrupt the original PST, it just won't
|| make a proper copy of it.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman
 
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