Re: How to save Outlook mailbox ?

[Alex DiMarco]

Doesn't look like you used the /b switch.

Here is a good article
https://superuser.com/questions/976864/what-is-backup-mode-in-robocopy
lower down is an option someone created to use shadow copy as a "snapshot"
option which may work better.



On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 4:29 PM Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
wrote:

> I tried robocopy, but it's not helping. If Outlook Application is open. The
> file cannot be copied.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 2:34 PM Alex DiMarco <alex@alexdimarco.ca> wrote:
>
> > you could probably use robocopy along these lines which will deal with
> the
> > locked files and then backup the copy. If Outlook is actively changing
> the
> > file, there is a chance of corruption.
> >
> >
> > /MIR switch to mirror the source folder
> > /B switch to open files in backup mode
> > robocopy %source% %destination% /MIR /R:1 /W:1 /B
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 12:24 PM Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm using rdiff-backup on Windows 10 and I want to use it to backup the
> >> ".ost" files containing the Outlook mailbox. To my understanding Outlook
> >> is
> >> locking these files exclusively and that prevents rdiff-backup to copy
> the
> >> file seamlessly. In fact, when rdiff-backup tries to backup these files
> a
> >> simple "Permissions Error" is raised.
> >>
> >> One way I know it's possible to copy the file is using the VSS (Volume
> >> Shadow Copy Service) to create a snapshot and then access the file data
> in
> >> that snapshot. The process is deadious and requires Admin privilege
> which
> >> is not always available.
> >>
> >> So what is your experience with these kinds of files ? Do you know other
> >> ways to backup locked Outlook files ?
> >>
> >> I'm looking toward an automated script using VisualBasic script to
> export
> >> the data maybe ?
> >>
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