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

[jd]

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".

 

[Gordon]

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".

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....

 

[Brian Tillman]

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.

 

[jd]

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?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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