Time Machine and the Entourage database don’t play well together. The problem most people have is that their Entourage profile is a massive, monolithic database and even opening Entourage causes Time Machine to back up the entire database not just the changes. Normally the advice is to manually copy the user profile every once and a while and not let Time Machine back it up unless you have an infinite amount of disk space.
You can also have problems because even if all your Office apps are closed the database daemon is still running and this can lead to corrupt database backups. Before you backup the Office database you can run this command:
tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit
And after you are done you can do restart or run this command:
tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to launch
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