Backing up outlook

[Nate Rosenthal]

I have been using outlook for my business and basically store important
emails and attachments in it. What is the best way to create a backup for
safekeeping?

 

[DL]

Same way as you backup your other data
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
or use the free MS Outlook Backup addin, located on MS OL site

 

[Nate Rosenthal]

Thanks. There is archive.pst and outlook.pst. The outlook one is bigger.
What is the difference?

 

[jeff.ggl007]

I have been using Microsofts Outlook backup utility for a few years now
with good results.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en

It will schedule your daily backups to where ever you define your data
to backup to, each day you shutdown Outlook.

I then use Acronis True Image 9.0 to backup my data files daily, as
well as an image of my drive.

Your PST file is your active Outlook working data. The archive file is
really just that, an archive of old static data that you want to keep
separately from the current active data. I only use and backup the
..pst file, but that is personal choice. I'm sure some people maintain
an archive file too.

 

[Jeff B.]

I have been using Microsofts Outlook backup utility for a few years now

with good results.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8b081f3a-b7d...



It will schedule your daily backups to where ever you define your data
to backup to, each day you shutdown Outlook.


I then use Acronis True Image 9.0 to backup my data files daily, as
well as an image of my drive.


Your Outlook.pst file is your active Outlook working data. The
archive.pst file is
really just that, an archive of old static data that you want to keep
separately from the current active data. I only use and backup the
Outlook.pst file, but that is personal choice. I'm sure some people
maintain
an archive.pst file too.

 

[Gordon]

The archive file is really just that, an archive of old static data that
you want to keep
separately from the current active data. I only use and backup the
.pst file, but that is personal choice. I'm sure some people maintain
an archive file too.

The archive pst is a relic of the 2 GB pst file limit - with the new Unicode
format there's really no need to use an archive file at all now.......

 

[DL]

The outlook.pst is the default data file, the archive.pst is the default
archive data file
If you need to access the archive, simply open it within OL - its just
another data store

 

[Nate Rosenthal]

Any advantage to this as opposed to Export/Import

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Export and Import should never be used to backup Outlook data. It will
always lose data and will often corrupt it.