Mail Backup

Try Microsoft Knowlege Base article (312359) and scroll down to the "RESOLUTION" section of the article. It will detail the specific procedure for ".dbx" (MS email) files.m-

I assume you are referring to Outlook or Outlook Express. Outlook will save your emails (.dbx files) where ever you instruct it to. You can easily copy this folder and save it again anywhere you like. I have my saved email stored in My Documents and daily save a copy of that folder to another drive.

Perhaps not what you're looking for, but it's worked well here for some time.

I've used automated backup utilities and have been less then impressed with their accuracy and the amount of system resources they need to be ready to back up. I've yet to find a software concept that doesn't run in the background constantly.

Just a layman's helping hand. Stay tuned... I'm sure you'll get some other ideas soon. Good luck!

If you are using outlook, microsoft does offer an add-in to back up your our pst files to a variety of places.

Here is a link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en

Why not just set up your email archiver to archive your email where you want it? Mine runs every morning and takes anything older than two weeks and stores it in my documents then once a week I back up my documents to a remote hard drive.

Hi,

I might be a bit over simplistic, but is not as easy as, well exporting your folders.

procedure:

Open Outlook,

Go to File; Import and Export...;

Choose first option, namely "Export to a File" Click on Next

Choose "Personal Folder file (.pst)" {<--- My preference} Click on Next

Select what you want to back-up, if you choose the top most level, probably named Mailbox ....., you should select the "Include Sub folders" selection at the bottom of the window to make sure you include everything. Click on Next

Select a location by clicking on Browse (you can now browse to the external hard Drive and place the back-up file where you wish to) If it is your first time, does not matter what option you choose in terms of duplicates, I always choose a new file, so never overwrite a previous backup.

Then click Finish and wait for the process to complete.

If, in the case you have lost stuff, to restore the backup, go through the same process, but now say Import from a file, and follow the windows.

Hope this helps.

TC

Regards

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