Good information.  I wondered about the .ost  I guess since it's use is for 
offline usage, then it will be re-created if the user was to re-install to a 
new hard disk and then re-install MS-Office. It does not maintain a local 
storage such as the .pst file.

Thanks


On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions) wrote:

> This behavior is by design; Microsoft designed VSS to exclude OST files from 
> the shadow copy. OST files are expensive to back up and useless in a 
> recovery. The .tmp file that you see probably is a copy that shouldn't exist 
> in the first place - maybe antivirus software scanned the OST file and made 
> this copy (solution: exclude OST files from antivirus scans - bad things will 
> happen if you don't).
>  
> http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item75.htm
>  
> -----Original message-----
> From: Summers, James B. II <jsummers AT ou DOT edu>
> Sent: Mon 09-01-2012 10:18
> Subject:      [Bacula-users] Backing Up Windows 7 with VSS
> To:   bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net; 
> Hello All,
> 
> I am attempting to backup a win7 64-bit machine.  It is using VSS as needed 
> and the backup runs with no errors or warnings.  The problem I have 
> encountered is that there is an Outlook .ost file that is about 4GB in size.  
> When I was looking at the files that were backed up using bconsole and 
> restore, the filename is prefixed with a "~" and the given a ".tmp" 
> extension.  After I mark that file and then use estimate it says 1 file to 
> restore, 5,832,704 bytes.  Which is definitely not the right size.
> 
> I see in the messages:
> 
> JobId 143: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS Vista", Drive(s)="C"
> 
> and several:
> 
> JobId 143: VSS Writer (BackupComplete):
> 
> and that the fd and sd backed up and wrote about 85GB.
> 
> I am not sure why the oct file did not get backed up correctly?
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> jim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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