Hello all,

I have been using a product for the last year or so that does incremental backups of pst files along with the rest of the files needed to recover a users Outlook. It works fine on a network and even works well over the internet for remote backup. Backups over the net does slow Outlook down when the pst files are over 5 gigs. But it does still work. The pst files we are working with range from 2 to 8 gigs each. The product is from Data Mills called pst2pst agent. Not cheap but it's the only solution I have found so far. I wish they made a product for zip files that works the same way.



Michael wrote:

PST file is too big for online backup
30-May-08

"Brian Stoop" wrote:


then you will have still the same problem if you split your data into
different pst-files, like one for each year. because outlook changes
the "last modified"-date every day you open outlook.

I have a similar problem and I DO split my PST files to seperate
year-files and archive. But I do my backups to an file share in our
network. I have to copy always 4,6 GB to this share altough I do
nothing with my 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 archive files.

If you use an online storage vendor you still have to upload all
archive files if your online backup is done automatically using the
last modified-attribut of your outlook files.

my hint: forget these online storages for your outlook. It's too much
data.

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:00 AM
Brian Stoop wrote:

PST file is too big for online backup
Hi,

My Office Outlook 2007 pst file has grown to hundreds of megabytes in size,
and I cannot do an online differential backup.

Can Outlook store it as hundreds of 1Mb chunks regardless of folders, or
split it into separate files for each sub folder ?


thanks, Brian

On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:04 AM
DL wrote:

NoYou wont be doing a differential backup in any case, the pst is a single
No
You wont be doing a differential backup in any case, the pst is a single
file, and its attribute is reset whenever outlook is opened, in other words
only a full backup will be done.
Have you used any of the archive options?

"Brian Stoop" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:42 PM
Brian Tillman wrote:

PST file is too big for online backup
Nothing stops you from creating other PSTs and moving some of the data in
the main PST to those other PSTs so as to reduce its size.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

On Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:08 AM
Neal wrote:

I make a new .
I make a new .pst file each year, and call them 2006, 2007 etc then sort my
inbox by date and move all the old ones into the correct year. If I want to
find a message that I got in 2004, I know which .pst to open. If I guess
the year worng, I simply open the next one and look in that. My current
..pst never gets big.


"Brian Stoop" wrote in message
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On Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:20 PM
VanguardLH wrote:

PST file is too big for online backup
"Brian Stoop" wrote in :


Looks like you'll have to start paying that online storage vendor for
more disk space or find another freebie provider that gives you more
space. adrive.com gives you 50GB of free disk space but then they are
not specifically an online backup provider. You do your own backups and
save the backup files to adrive.

Outlook requires write access each time it opens the .pst file. The
..pst file will get updated everytime it is opened. Your incremental
backup is looking for files that changed. That means the .pst file will
have changed every time your incremental backup executes, so the whole
..pst file gets included in each incremental backup (as long as you open
Outlook more often than you run incremental backups). "Online
differential backup" doesn't say what you are using to create the backup
files or what you selected to include in those incremental backups, or
even if it is a program that works with the online backup provider (so
you might instead be running local backups already and then copying the
backup files to online storage).

Online storage does not obviate the need for local backup storage (to
removable and securely protected media). If the online storage provider
goes belly up, you can't at those files anymore. If there is a network
problem (a host is down in the route between you and them, their servers
are too busy to handle yet another connect, or their service is down)
and you need the restored file(s) now, you can't get them from the
online storage provider. Are your backups encrypted locally and then
saved up on their disks? If not, your data is available for their
interrogation. You sure that none of your e-mails or other files you
are storing there contain sensitive information, like credit card
numbers, social security number, company private information, etc?

On Friday, May 30, 2008 5:43 AM
Brian Stoop wrote:

Hi,Its the Upload Time, not the Image Size thats the problem.
Hi,

Its the Upload Time, not the Image Size thats the problem. And I backup to a
privately leased secure server.


thanks,

On Friday, May 30, 2008 8:11 AM
Brian Stoop wrote:

No I havent tried the archive option.
No I havent tried the archive option. I will look into it,

thanks,

On Friday, May 30, 2008 9:04 AM
Michael wrote:

PST file is too big for online backup
"Brian Stoop" wrote:


then you will have still the same problem if you split your data into
different pst-files, like one for each year. because outlook changes
the "last modified"-date every day you open outlook.

I have a similar problem and I DO split my PST files to seperate
year-files and archive. But I do my backups to an file share in our
network. I have to copy always 4,6 GB to this share altough I do
nothing with my 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 archive files.

If you use an online storage vendor you still have to upload all
archive files if your online backup is done automatically using the
last modified-attribut of your outlook files.

my hint: forget these online storages for your outlook. It's too much
data.


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