Scheduling Backup

D

David Rudman

I have installed the microsoft backup tool in Outlook 2007 and configured it.
Is ther a way of scheduling this to happen automatically? I am using
windows 7
 
R

Roady [MVP]

You can set it to remind you every x days upon closing Outlook (where x is
configurable). You cannot schedule this as Outlook needs to be closed in
order to backup the pst-file correctly. If a backup attempt is made while
Outlook is still running, the backup will fail since the pst-file is locked.

If you were to close Outlook and then schedule the backup via Windows's
Scheduled Tasks, then you can suffice with a simply copy command. You can
find an example for that and additional solutions (like backup add-ins which
have a scheduling function built-in) at the bottom of this article;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
 

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