Hey All,

I am an Outlook user. (standalone, not as an interface to Exchange) My .pst file has grown to nearly 1gb over the years.

I currently use the Outlook Personal Folder Backup utility that comes from Microsoft which basically just copies the .pst file in its entirety to another location.

Needless to say, even with USB 2.0 to an external 7200k drive, this process takes a while.

Are there any good (ie. recommended) 3rd party utilities that performs backups or even syncs between two installs of Outlook on a network?

I found a bunch of stuff in Google, but I'm looking for personal user recommendations.

Thanks!

 

I've never found any truly reliable tool when dealing with psts that large tend to corropt too easily. I just keep, delete and archive. A pain for sure but the best I've come up with.

I'm sure you've found these already but just in case:

This one looks like the best of the three to me but no personal experience

http://www.addonmail.com/Products/PSTManager.asp

http://www.mailnavigator.com/read_dbx_file.html

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm

 

Yeah, it's definitely a pain in the ****, especially when you're dealing with Exchange! What I've ended up doing is creating a seperate "archive.pst" basically and archiving my stuff to there (using AutoArchive scheduling on Outlook 2003) and then just opening the archive when I need to. You just have too much mail

 

I have definitely been left wanting in this respect from Micro$oft. I am pretty much live Vader...I just try to delete what I can. Outlook does not like it when PST files get larger than 1GB...in fact, they will almost always corrupt when they get that large and then you are chit out of luck. I try to tell my users to just delete what they can.

Your best bet is to just use Outlooks archiving feature. What I personally do is create separte folders within my "inbox" that are for different topics (e.g. work, school, finances...etc...) then I archive each individual folder on different days...this tends to keep each "archive.pst" file less then a couple hundred megs each.....just my $0.02