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| Thread ID: 121638 | 2011-11-03 23:41:00 | Closing outlook via the command line - or something. | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1241731 | 2011-11-04 03:34:00 | I would avoid using something like pskill, you are likely to end up with a corrupt PST, so would need to be a safe shutdown method rather than forced.Yes, absolutely right, although I have found that Outlook usually recovers the file OK after a system freeze or whatever. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1241732 | 2011-11-04 06:47:00 | You could always try whats suggested Here (ask-leo.com _data_can_be_backed_up.html) OR even a better Idea, get a back up program that doesn't need to close off Outlook to start with. One of the backup programs I use is Fbackup (http://www.fbackup.com/) -- Never ever had to close Outlook when its doing its backups. It quite happily backs up the complete pst file whether Outlook is open or closed. Edited: If you need proof -- See attachment -- outlook is open, and fbackup is backing it up to a linux server in the workshop ( arrows / progress down the bottom) Doing it manually as a demo as it was set to auto run earlier. |
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| 1241733 | 2011-11-04 09:08:00 | That looks like it might do the trick - although there is still the risk of pst file corruption. You are right about finding a backup prog that doesn't need to close Outlook. I'd been using Genie Backup for years and that uses volume shadow copy to avoid the issue, but it has got very unreliable lately, so I changed to Acronis True Image Home. Unfortunately I didn't think to test that aspect during the evaluation, and now I've paid for it. However it was not vastly expensive so I may still change again. I'll check out Nircmd. Thanks. |
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