Office Tweak: How to backup your Personal Folders in Outlook ?
Gili | May 11, 2007 | Comments 1 |
In a previous installment of this blog, i showed you the preferred way to backup your Outlook emails to Personal Folders (*.pst).
As a follow up, i would like to introduce you to a Microsoft utility named Personal Folders Backup , that’s aimed to help you backup the Personal folders themselves.
The Personal Folders Backup download creates backup copies 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.
Installation is quite simple:
- Go to the Personal Folders Backup download page.
- Download the pfbackup.exe file and run it.
- After Installation completes, open your Outlook.
- Click File, the click Backup.
- In case you have multiple Personal Folders, you can use the Options button, to select which of the Folders to backup.
- Use the File Location in order to specify the location of your backup file.
- Click OK.
- Click Save Backup.
Important Tip for Office 2007 users:
I have encountered situations in which after installing the utility, the Backup option, didn’t show up under the File menu in Outlook. This is due to issues in the registration of the utility as an add-in in Outllok 2007.
In order to make the utility work, proceed as following:
In Outlook, Click Tools, and then click Trust Center.
Choose Add-ins from the navigation list on the left. At the bottom of the Add-ins screen, under Manage, select COM Add-ins and click Go.
Check the box corresponding to Outlook Backup Addin.
Click OK.
[tags] Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows tips, Microsoft Outlook, Office 2007, Outlook, Personal Folders[/tags]
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If the backup command does not display in Office 2007:
1) Follow MS’s guide: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886589
or
2) Go to the Trust center, manage com add-ins as shown in the article. If the add-in is not displayed, click “Add” then direct it to the plug-in outbak.dll. For me: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ADDINS\outbak.dll
The backup command then displays.