Outlook PST Backup Utility

Microsoft Downloads - Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup

"Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.

Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single .PST file (usually called "Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might also have an additional .PST file that you use for archiving ("Archiving Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST files.

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If your company is anything like mine, and you have a strict limit on the amount of email you can keep in your main Exchange Mailbox, then this utility might come in handy for you.

I have a number of PST's on my machine. About once a month I'd quit Outlook and copy all of them to a network share for backup purposes.

This utility helps automate all of that.

Accessed via the File/Backup menu, you select the PST's you want to backup (i.e. copy a backup of the PST to another location), where to copy them to and how often to remind you to back them up. Copying the backup's to UNC's worked great for me...

To actually do the backup, you click on the "Save Backup" button and then you exit Outlook (When Outlook is open a PST is locked. So you need to exit Outlook so the PST can be copied...). Then the utility will copy PST's, one after the other, naming them "[OriginalName] backup.pst".

Simple, easy and pretty painless. Much easier than manually copying the PST's to back them up, that's for sure...