Microsoft Outlook is considered as the most excellent and popular email client used today. The personal folders file( .pst) of Microsoft Outlook is one of the most essential files on your computer that stores all the offline copies of your email messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, journal entries, notes, RSS feeds, settings, E-mail accounts, message rules, junk e-mail lists and signatures. PST files abbreviated from Personal Storage Table are represented as a complex of databases that contain entire outlook data. The .pst files are stored on your hard drive and are endangered because of virus attack, hard disk crash, deletion/format, unexpected hardware malfunctions, software failures etc. the thought of losing important data like important emails, contacts, appointments info etc is very scary. Thus it is very important to backup outlook pst files.
To backup pst files, firstly, it is very essential to know exactly where your pst files are located. By default it is located in;
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 the default is;
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\
Now you have located the .pst file on your system, the next step is to copy it to a safe location like a CD/DVD, pen drive, flash memory card, external hard drive etc. While copying the .pst file make sure that your Outlook is closed. Backing up of pst file is becomes troublesome, when the size of your .pst file is very large. It takes hell lot of time and becomes very tedious to do it on a regular basis. To save yourself from the backup stress of moving outlook pst file to a safe location you can trust Outlook Backup & Migrate. This tool can backup all your PST files on regular intervals that is daily, weekly or monthly. It allows you to backup and restore your E-mails, folders, contacts, calendar, journal entries, tasks, notes, RSS feeds, settings, E-mail accounts, message rules, junk e-mail lists and signatures. It saves Outlook data files with a couple of clicks and allows you to restore them any time you want. It also works great for migrating Outlook data, from one environment to another that is when you have upgraded Operating system and Microsoft Outlook.