Microsoft Outlook Backup Software How to Guide
Outlook backup is a free piece of add-in software that is not
included in Microsoft Outlook for one reason or another, but
this can easily be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the
page.
What does
Outlook backup actually do?
It enables us to backup our emails which are stored in a
personal folder or PST by creating a copy of our original
personal folder, the idea behind this being that the backup is
stored in a different location, and if the original cannot be
accessed then we can easily begin to use the backup in its
place.
How to
Backup Microsoft Outlook
firstly download and run the backup tool from the link at the
bottom of the page, this will then install the add-in to
Outlook.
Once installed launch Outlook, under the file menu you
should now have a Backup Option,
(if not checkout our troubleshooting
section below) Select the Backup option, and
select the Options button and you’ll see the following.
Select the Personal Folders you wish to backup and now select
Browse to change the default backup location, it generally
points to a location on the C: drive, but it’s important to
change this to an alternative location,
(if you’re looking for a cheap backup
device, checkout our Network hard drive page)
Once finished
select Save Backup, this will then prepare to run a
backup the next time you exit outlook, now bear in mind, if you
have a large mailbox this means the PST file will be large, and
depending the speed your backup will run at this may take quite
a while for this first backup.
Notes..
Make sure your PST files are not larger than 15GB or they will
be slow, and can become unstable and corrupt easily.
To check the
size of your PST or Mailbox from Outlook Right Click on Personal
Folders and select Folder Size. If the size is around or over
1GB then you can simply create another PST/Personal folder. File
Menu > Data File Management.
Troubleshooting
I cannot see the backup Outlook tool from the Outlook File
menu.
This happens when the file outback.dll is not registered
correctly, to correct this firstly re-run the install, if
unsuccessful run the following from the Start > Run menu
regsvr32 "c:\program
files\microsoft office\office\addins\outbak.dll"
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backup tips
PST password
recovery, recover your outlook personal folders
PST password recovery can be a long winded process, but making
sure you perform it correctly will allow you to disable the
password more here on how to do ...
www.computer-adviser.com/PST-password-recovery.html
PST repair
tools recovery repair your outlook personal folders
PST repair tools recovery repair your outlook personal folders
using Microsoft’s inbox repair tool to repair any personal
folder problems.
www.computer-adviser.com/PST-repair.html
OST to PST
conversion can be a tricky find out more on how to ...
OST to PST conversion can be a tricky task to complete depending
on which version of outlook the OST has been created in, try the
free OST to PST converter ...
www.computer-adviser.com/OST-to-PST-conversion.html
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This application will run a scan and repair over PST files.
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The backup tool can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&u=http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/0/f/e0f1a42b-e4bd-4306-a3d4-78ff9d2b22ca/pfbackup.exe
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