How to Backup Outlook Client
Fun Fact: Did you know that around 240 million people in the US use Microsoft Outlook. (It was on wikipedia so it must be true!)
But on a more serious note, we often get asked the question “We use Outlook for everything, so how can we back it up?)
Well, first Outlook starts to depreciate in performance when it starts to get to large, often we see it start flaking out around 5GB or so, depending on the machine, memory, drive etc… So it is important to perform regular archiving to help with performance.
The Following Article links provide a great reference for the tools to use for backing up depending on your version:
Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folder Backup from Microsoft
Using the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup Tool
Now what is neat about the above tool is that it will let you schedule your backups on an interval! No more forgetting!
As for version 2000, as great a client as it may have been, it is now 10 years old and should be upgraded. So do a manual Export of your .pst file and migrate it over. Here is a link that will help you get started exporting the .pst file —-> Ways to back up Outlook 2000 data
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