PST file is too big for online backup

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Brian Stoop

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
 
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 said:
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 ?

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.
 
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.
 
Hi,

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


thanks,
 
Brian Stoop said:
Its the Upload Time, not the Image Size thats the problem.

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.
 
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:

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


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

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

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

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

Previous Posts In This Thread:

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

NoYou wont be doing a differential backup in any case, the pst is a single
N
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


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

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


Re: PST file is too big for online backup
in <
Looks like you'll have to start paying that online storage vendor fo
more disk space or find another freebie provider that gives you mor
space. adrive.com gives you 50GB of free disk space but then they ar
not specifically an online backup provider. You do your own backups an
save the backup files to adrive

Outlook requires write access each time it opens the .pst file. Th
..pst file will get updated everytime it is opened. Your incrementa
backup is looking for files that changed. That means the .pst file wil
have changed every time your incremental backup executes, so the whol
..pst file gets included in each incremental backup (as long as you ope
Outlook more often than you run incremental backups). "Onlin
differential backup" doesn't say what you are using to create the backu
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?

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,

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

thanks,

Re: PST file is too big for online backup


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.


Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
Using the MS Text Driver to read Delimited Files
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...c2-3895d1a2df28/using-the-ms-text-driver.aspx
 
Is there a question there?
There are numerous backup apps that can backup over the net
BTW you cannot incrementally backup a pst since every time outlook is opened
the pst is modified, so you back up the complete pst again, nor can you
successfully backup a pst file whilst it is in use by outlook

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:

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



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:

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

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?


Re: 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]

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.



Re: PST file is too big for online backup
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?

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,

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

thanks,

Re: PST file is too big for online backup


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.


Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
Using the MS Text Driver to read Delimited Files
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...c2-3895d1a2df28/using-the-ms-text-driver.aspx
 
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

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