I have been using Microsofts Outlook backup utility for a few years now
with good results.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

It will schedule your daily backups to where ever you define your data
to backup to, each day you shutdown Outlook.

I then use Acronis True Image 9.0 to backup my data files daily, as
well as an image of my drive.

Your PST file is your active Outlook working data. The archive file is
really just that, an archive of old static data that you want to keep
separately from the current active data. I only use and backup the
..pst file, but that is personal choice. I'm sure some people maintain
an archive file too.


Nate Rosenthal wrote:
Thanks. There is archive.pst and outlook.pst. The outlook one is bigger.
What is the difference?
"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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Same way as you backup your other data
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
or use the free MS Outlook Backup addin, located on MS OL site

"Nate Rosenthal" wrote in message
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I have been using outlook for my business and basically store important
emails and attachments in it. What is the best way to create a backup
for
safekeeping?