How to backup your Outlook Personal Folder to a Nomadesk Fileserver

Are your emails secured?

Changed to another email provider and thought you copied all your files over? Just reinstalled your computer thinking your personal folders were on that other drive? Computer crashed? Inadvertently deleted your email?

Sounds familiar?

With a simple tool and Nomadesk, you’ll never have to worry about losing your Outlook emails again.

Find out how to backup your Outlook folders to a Nomadesk Fileserver

When working with Microsoft Office Outlook, all your emails are typically stored in the personal folders store (PST file).  Since this file is constantly in use it becomes difficult to backup.

However, with a simple Microsoft Office Outlook tool backing up your personal folders is child play.

Thanks to the Microsoft Personal Folders backup tool backup copies can be created 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. The Personal Folders Backup tool allows you to choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.

Note: the Personal Folders Backup tool only backs up .PST files. If you are working on a Microsoft Exchange Server, your server mailbox folders are probably backed up regularly by your server administrator.

Installation

1. Download and install the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool. (Quit Outlook before installing)
2. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

How to use

1. Start Outlook and go to the File menu, click Backup.
2. Click Options.
3. Select the check box for each item you want to back up.
4. Click Browse and select your Nomadesk Fileserver to backup your PST file to and then click Open.
5. Backup will start on exiting Outlook.

Mind your bandwidth

Have Microsoft Outlook automatically remind you to make a backup copy of this file (select the Remind me to backup every 7 days).

Note that when backing up large PST files, your bandwidth usage might increase considerably.

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