To back up your email, contacts, and calendar in Microsoft Office, you need to export your personal folder. This can be done with the addition PFBackup from Microsoft. Follow these steps:
Moving forward, you can decide to run a backup each time you close Outlook.
- Close Outlook
- Download PFBackup here and install it to your computer
- Open Outlook
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If you have Microsoft Outlook 2007, do the following before continuing:
- Select Tools and then Trust Center
- Click on Add-Ins on the left menu
- Select Manage: COM Add-Ins and click OK
- Click Add and browse to the folder C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Office \ Office12 \ Supplementary
- Select the file outback.dll and click OK and then OK again.
- Open the File menu, click Backup and then click Options
- Select how often you want to be reminded to run your backup
- Select the personal folder where you want to run your backup
- Select the backup file to be saved. Note that you must choose a destination file for each personal folder that you selected above. For instance, select c: \ Outlook Backup \ privatemail.pst and c: \ Outlook Backup \ jobmail.pst if you selected two personal folders (personal and work).
- Click OK and then Save Backup
- You will be prompted to close Outlook so that your files can back up.
- Create a backup of Nextiva Drive AutoStore where the folder you chose to save the files in c: \ Outlook Backup in the example above, can be included in the backup.