Re: How to save Outlook mailbox ?

[Alex DiMarco]

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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