Will MS ever drop the concept of ONE database?

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h.reininger

What are our chances to see a database in Entourage we can actually
manage in it's individual items, instead of having one (potentially
huge) chunk?

I really would like to move only my account to another Mac and not all
other stuff, or have Retrospect backing up only select folders, or
avoid to loose EVERYTHING in case the database gets corrupted?

What are our chances?
 
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mmmmark

Not a clue about those chances. But...did you know that you can drag any
folder to the desktop and it will make an .mbox file? You can backup these
files individually as needed and can import them by just dragging into the
Entourage window.

An enterprising individual _might_ be able to automate the backup process
with an Applescript, but I'll leave that question to someone who knows
Applescript.

-Mark
 
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h.reininger

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the helpful tips, I was aware of those. But what would you
do, if your database was 2GB and if you changed as much as a comma and
everything, all 2GB of it, needed to be backed up again?

There SHOULD be a better way! That's why we are on a Mac, isn't it?

Cheers, Herbert
 
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mmmmark

I'm lazy, so I just clone my internal harddrive to an external firewire
drive and have it run incremental backups on a regular basis to keep it
current. This way I don't even have to pick and choose what to back up. I
also alternate drives in my external enclosure every few weeks so that I
really have 2 backups in the unlikely event that one fails.
 
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