how to backup outlook data?

Hi - I'm doing a clean install of Windows XP Pro on my computer. But first - I have to backup all of my Outlook data, and hopefully my Outlook settings as well. It accesses two different e-mail accounts - a POP3 account and an SMTP account. It also has all of my calendar and tasks data in it. How can I backup all of this? Thanks!

Drag and drop is your friend, it works for emails, contacts, tasks, etc, (drag from outlook to any folder you want), and for accounts, just search the "export" option in the account manager.

Good Luck

OldMX

You want OutBack Plus 4 It will do everything you want and it will also do the same for IE settings.

1. Email Messages:
From the Outlook Express menu select Tools | Options | Maintenance and click the StoreFolder button. You see a dialog with the name of the directory that has your mail files. If you look in that directory you find files named after your mail folders and news groups. They all have a .DBX suffix. Outlook Express keeps all messages in these database files. If you make copies of these files regularly, you'll have a safe backup of your OE mail.

Restore (if necessary): To restore the backup data, just copy it back to the directory. You can selectively restore folders by just copying specific files back. Alternatively, you can use OE's File | Import | Messages feature to import one or more of the backup folders. Email Account Settings

As far as we know, the procedure works for all kind of email: The regular SMTP / POP3 based email, MAPI, IMAP or even the free Hotmail Account, that is built into Outlook. For Hotmail, however, some messages and settings might be stored only at the Hotmail server ( = somewhere at Microsoft !) and not on your local PC.

2. Account settings:
Data about your mail and news accounts are stored in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager. To save this data, start RegEdit and select that key in the left-hand pane. Then from the menu select Registry | Export Registry File. Save the file to a name like "outlook.reg".

Restore (if necessary) To restore the account settings, right-click the .REG file and select Merge.

Note: As an alternative, you can save the data one account at a time through Outlook Express: click Tools | Accounts | Export and specify the name of the file to save the settings. Be sure to save this information for every account.

3. Address Book
Getting the data out of your address book for safekeeping is relatively easy. From the menu select File | Export | Address Book and select the comma separated text file as your output format. Then select the fields you want to export. To make sure you know where the backup is going, give a full path name. To restore the address book or to get your addresses onto a new system, the process is not quite symmetrical. Select File | Import | Other address book and select the text file option again. You'll be given a list of fields to import. Since you're importing a file that was created by Outlook Express, you usually don't need to make any changes here. After that, click your way on through the wizard and you'll get your address book back.

Outlook Express != Outlook!

Just make a copy of your .pst file(s) located in <your profile>\Local settings\application data\Microsoft\Outlook

or better yet, make a copy of your entire profile, then after you reinstall and create a new profile, simply overwrite it with your old one.

The repair outlook and data email recovery has prompted you a path of the Outlook Express files' storage. And now save the damaged dbx files in the safe folder, they can be useful.

You got to File, select Import And Export, and follow the steps to make a Backup.pst file. This has all of your mail, calendar, contacts, etc. There's no point in trying to back up the settings for the mail accounts, because they only take a few seconds to re-enter. If you don't know them off the type of your head, just write them down.

When you re-install, open Outlook, configure your mail accounts, and import the pst files. You will probably need to make 2 pst files...one for each account, depening on how you have it currently configured.