Outlook Mail
How to back up or copy your outlook mail, contacts and other data

All your mail, your contacts, your calendars, and almost every other detail of your life is in Outlook. To make sure you don't lose all this in case of a hard disk crash or some other disaster, ou can create backup copies of your Personal Folder (.pst) files - that's where Outlook stores all the essential data.

To create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying

Step 1: Go to your outlook folder in Windows Explorer, highlight all files ending in ".pst". If you have Windows Explorer configure not to show file extensions for known formats, look for Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders files.


Step 2: Select 'Edit | Copy' from the menu to copy selected files


Step 3: Open the folder where you want to put your backup copies in Windows Explorer. Ideally, this will be on another computer, on a removable disk stored far away from your home, somehere on the internet, or at least on a different hard disk. Select Edit | Paste from the menu to paste your .pst files to the backup location.