From: Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] on
"David Hollaz" <DavidHollaz(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:69D7DD9D-16DC-4397-89D6-16392BECB28C(a)microsoft.com...

> Many thanks for ending this annoying problem. With Outlook / Word still
> running, my automatic back-up programs would not back up Outlook, and had
> some problems with backing up documents as well.

As long as Outlook is running, it has an exclusive lock on the data store and
no backup program will make a reliable copy of it.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]