Entourage ARCHIVING - is this similar to archiving to PST

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Bas

Is the archiving (Export) facility in Entourage similar to saving items to
archive using a PST

I'm looking to REDUCE the 7000 plus message and calender items by saving
them to archive

Say if I want to archive all items older older than 90 days...
Then say next month can I add to this archive - as I can in PST file ?
 
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matt neuburg

Bas said:
Is the archiving (Export) facility in Entourage similar to saving items to
archive using a PST

I'm looking to REDUCE the 7000 plus message and calender items by saving
them to archive

Say if I want to archive all items older older than 90 days...
Then say next month can I add to this archive - as I can in PST file ?
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I don't know what PST is or what you're getting at. Just drag stuff
right out of Entourage to the desktop. If you drag a mail folder, what
you get is an mbox file. That's ordinary text plus it's in a standard
format. Now do what you like with it. m.
 
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Bas

matt neuburg said:
I don't know what PST is or what you're getting at. Just drag stuff
right out of Entourage to the desktop. If you drag a mail folder, what
you get is an mbox file. That's ordinary text plus it's in a standard
format. Now do what you like with it. m.


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Bas

Ok so I end up with a POINT-IN-TIME backup
and I suppose I'll end with 52 backup files - if I do it every week!

Not a "Database"

On a PC an Outlook PST file contains your mailbox with appointments etc
We usually call it "username_archive"

I can archive stuff to it every day - its just 1 file
When I want to lookup old items that are in the archive - I simply open the
users archive!!
 
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matt neuburg

Bas said:
Ok so I end up with a POINT-IN-TIME backup
and I suppose I'll end with 52 backup files - if I do it every week!

Not a "Database"

On a PC an Outlook PST file contains your mailbox with appointments etc
We usually call it "username_archive"

I can archive stuff to it every day - its just 1 file
When I want to lookup old items that are in the archive - I simply open the
users archive!!
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Cool. Well...

(1) I'm going to go right on bottom posting.

(2) This isn't PC Entourage so it doesn't have this feature.

(3) If you want to put the text files into a database, put them in a
database. Actually I find that just leaving them as is and searching
with BBEdit (does multi-file on-disk text searches) is quite sufficient.

(4) A totally different alternative would be to create an alternative
identity and move stuff into that. However, this is just replacing one
database with another. The whole *problem* with Entourage is that the
mail is kept in a database (over-engineering, stuff can get corrupted,
slow, etc.). Personally I think text is a better choice.

m.
 
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Allen Watson

Unfortunately there is really no good way to do a running archive for all
kinds of data. There are a couple of approaches that archive mail messages
in a database (I use one that goes to a FileMaker database). Archiving
calendar info, however, is as you say, "52 backup files" if you archive once
a week.

I suggest you post a message with a subject like "FEATURE REQUEST: Archive
database".

My preference, honestly, would be an ability to select everything by date
(>90 days, for example), and transfer all that material to another Entourage
database (or identity). Why use a different database format if you are going
to have a database at all? This way, you could archive to a second Entourage
identity; you could back up periodically; you could easily transfer material
from one computer to another, and so on.
 
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Bas

I also support several Novell Groupwise systems - really nice system
(one site has over 650 very active users on a Dual Xeon box)
Maintained by a single guy - ME!

Whilst I get grief from Exchange users and thier PST files - I rarely get
any hassel from the GW users.
The server maintains a Archive database (the Archive mirrors the main
mailbox so looking for things is
simple... add to that the full indexing...)
and...most importantly I can check/repair the database at will

Actually, the main reason for archiving is that the user(s) are compaining
about speed AND
missing messages.

It would be good if I can put my mind at rest about missing items ie.
corruption
 
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