Steps to Backup Outlook 2007 Emails
Email is a procedure of exchanging digital messages from author to one or multiple recipients. One of the best email clients which can manage all your emails in an organized manner is MS Outlook, which comes with MS Office. There are many versions of Outlook but Outlook 2007 is the standard tool used to communicate and collaborate with other people and serves as a multipurpose management tool. It has number of new features, which makes it better personal information manager compared to the earlier versions of Outlook. Along with emails it also manages your contact information, appointments, events, tasks, meeting schedules and other information. It stores all the information along with emails in a single PST file (Personal Storage Table, which acts as a local storage for MS Outlook). If the PST file gets corrupted or deleted then your Outlook will not work and the entire data which is saved in Outlook profile may lost. You may think that why it gets corrupt or delete?
Scenarios where Outlook Backup Software can be used are as follows:
- Due to abnormal termination of Outlook without saving any data: If your Outlook application terminates suddenly due to some power crash or due to logical corruption of Outlook such as software malfunction, changing default location of your PST file or while migrating from one system to other, PST file corruption may occur.
- Keep backup of your PST files: The size of the PST file is limited. If the data stored in it exceeds the size of the PST file, then there are chances of PST file getting corrupted. So you can keep a copy of your Outlook data in order to avoid losing them. But keeping backup of your PST files does not store the settings and the other attributes. So to keep complete backup of your Outlook items you can use Outlook Backup software.
- Scheduling Backup: Outlook 2007 does not have a special built-in backup capability to backup your important files. Instead, you need to backup the PST file manually, which is time consuming. Therefore, relevant backup tool is necessary to take quick and complete backup. Backup can be configured and scheduled on daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Remo Outlook Backup and Migrate software helps you to backup and restore all Outlook emails along with all the other attributes of Outlook. This software can backup Outlook 2010 emails, contacts and other data and along with it it also supports other versions of Outlook. This software is especially designed to create complete backup archive of all Outlook items. It can restore complete e-mail client when Outlook refuses to load. Powerful features of this software such as handy interface, strong security, splitting up of backup archive, internal scheduler and compatibility makes it a complete solution for all your Outlook PST backup requirements. This software also helps you to migrate Outlook 2007, 2003 and 2010 Outlook files and settings from older version to the newer versions.
Steps to Backup Outlook 2007 Emails are as follows,
Step 1: Download and install the demo version of Remo Outlook Backup and Migrate software. Start the application by double clicking the desktop shortcut. The main window is displayed as shown in Fig (1). Select “Backup” option from the main screen.
Figure 1: Main Screen
Step 2: If you have already created a backup profile then you can use the same backup profile or if you want to create new backup profile then select “Create New Backup Profile”. Select an Outlook items whose backup need to be taken and then click “Next” as shown in Fig (2).
Figure 2: Select Outlook items
Step 3: Select destination drive from the Backup Settings in order to save your backup files and then click on “Next” button. Now, a window appears to schedule backup. Backup can be scheduled on daily, weekly or monthly basis. Configure all the settings and click “Next” as shown in Fig (3).
Figure 3: Schedule backup
Step 4: When the Backup process is completed a confirmation message will be displayed. When you click on “OK” button, the backup summary will be displayed as shown in Fig (4).
Figure 4: Backup summary
