There are 3rd party utilities that do this. But Microsoft produced a little
addon to for personal folder backups a couple of years ago.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...875321033.aspx


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I am trying to find out some information about outlook backups. I was
under the impression that with Outlook 2003 you no longer have to close
down outlook to do the backup. But I was just told by a friend that
that is not true the .pst files are locked and you still can't back up
no matter what software you use unless outlook is closed. Does anyone
know of software that will backup outlook even if it is opened or
possibly will close outlook before it backs it up?

Thanks
Philip