It is important to backup your outlook settings in case of a disaster. If you backup your backup, then it will be easier for you to recover from any anomalies that might arise on either the software or hardware end. This can also help if you switch computers and want to get back up and running quickly without losing any data again.
Where are Outlook settings saved?
Outlook settings are saved in the registry of your PC or laptop. You can save it to an external hard drive, a USB Flash Drive (UFD), use a cloud storage service such as Dropbox, Google Drive and more.
How do I backup my Outlook settings?
Use the steps below: -Open Outlook on your computer -Go to File > Options > Advanced options > Export -Your email accounts, calendar items and other settings will be backed up in XML files (.pst)
After backing up these files you may want to keep them in another location like in case they get corrupted or deleted for whatever reason.
How do I restore Outlook settings?
Open the backup files (.pst) with your email accounts, calendar items and other settings in another computer. -Go to File > Import and Export >Import Data -Select “Comma Separated Values (Windows)” or “Microsoft Outlook 97-2003 Format” depending on which file you restored from. A prompt will appear asking where is the .PST located; select it then click Open. Your emails and calendars should be imported into your current instance of Microsoft Outlook without losing any data.
You might think that restoring your configuration is a time-consuming process but in reality it only takes five minutes. This may cause significant downtime for companies who have already been through so much since the virus attack last year.
To avoid this downtime, you need to do a full backup of your Outlook settings. This way if there are any problems down the road with mail delivery or synchronization issues on mobile devices and computers, restoring these configurations is as simple as just importing them back into Microsoft Outlook again.
This process only takes five minutes and you could be up and running much faster than trying to recover data from their Exchange server backups which can take hours or even days depending upon how long it’s been since the last successful backup occurred.
Now that we have shown you how easy it is to restore your configuration files in case something goes wrong, why not try doing so now before an emergency arises? You will be glad that you took our advice today instead of wishing that you had done it tomorrow.
If you follow our advice and backup your Outlook settings often, then in the event that something happens to them (like they get corrupted for example) you can easily restore them from a known good copy which is located at another location on your network or somewhere else entirely like on an external hard drive.
All of this sounds great but restoring files is not always possible depending upon how badly damaged the data file has become due to whatever reason, whether it’s hardware failure or software corruption. In these cases there could be other alternatives available such as using a third-party tool to try and recover some of the information before throwing up one’s hands into giving up completely since nothing seems able to do any more than what they’ve already done.
