PST Backup Tool – A Primer

Over the years Microsoft has built up a formidable

reputation in the personal computing world where it is without doubt the biggest player in the market. If you work in the Windows environment, you are likely to find a Microsoft product for every important task. However where Microsoft really scores high is its capacity to delivery support to its users to negotiate day to day issues that may they may experience with its products. When it comes to the Ms Outlook application, it offers a whole series of help files to guide you through its use. Its online knowledge base is populated with relevant content and there is hardly an issue that Microsoft fails to address. Further it offers complementary tools to deal with important aspects. For Outlook it includes the Inbox Repair tool to repair compromised Outlook files and a PST backup tool to help you backup your emails on a periodic basis. The PST backup tool needs to be downloaded from the Microsoft support site and once installed it can take regular backups of your emails at specified intervals.

Backing Up your PST files

It is important that the PST file that you wish to backup must be open. You need to go the File Menu and click on the Backup option. Next you need to click on Options and then in the list of files that is shown for backup, just mark the check box for each specific pst file that you wish to be backed up. Once done the follow the onscreen instructions to complete the backup. Please note that the backup process would be initiated only when you quit the Outlook application. You can incidentally remind the application to remind you to backup the file after a given interval of certain days.  The available range goes from a single day to nine hundred ninety days.  

It is important to note that the tool can recover only PST files and will not work if your data is saved on an Exchange server mailbox.

Just a Backup tool is not enough – keep a pst repair application handy

While PST backup tool offers you the chance to save a great amount of your data during an Outlook crash, it is not fool proof. For once it is unlikely contain your latest emails and even the backup files that it creates on the local system can get compromised during a power outage or virus attack. Hence it is always prudent to keep a copy of DataNumen Outlook Repair nearby which can assuredly get back all your lost emails. Counted as the best application in its league, this versatile product can draw out all Outlook data constituents including journal entries and even notes with effortless ease. Now even if your backup files which have been stored in a flash media disk get corrupted, this versatile tool can bring out their contents with ease. Incidentally it can even dig out data from Norton ghost image file or even a virtual machine disk.

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/