outlook express - incremental backups?

[Elliott Baral]

Is there any way to do an incremental backup of the files in
outlook express's message store? Some of those files are very large
-- nearing 100M -- because I rarely erase any email. And OE
always resets the file access time to the present, even when I don't
put any messages in a file. So, when I run backup, it always looks
like *all* the OE message store files are more current than what's
in the last backkup. As a result everything gets backed up, even
though most files haven't changed, and some files, though very large,
have had only a few new emails stored in them.

How can one do an incremental backup on one's OE message store
files?

I have Windows 2000 service pack 4.

Thanks!

- Elliott Baral

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there any way to do an incremental backup of the files in
outlook express's message store? Some of those files are very large
-- nearing 100M -- because I rarely erase any email. And OE
always resets the file access time to the present, even when I don't
put any messages in a file. So, when I run backup, it always looks
like *all* the OE message store files are more current than what's
in the last backkup. As a result everything gets backed up, even
though most files haven't changed, and some files, though very large,
have had only a few new emails stored in them.

How can one do an incremental backup on one's OE message store
files?

I have Windows 2000 service pack 4.

Thanks!

- Elliott Baral

You can't, and unless you start managing your EMail by
archiving old stuff, you're heading for a disaster. One way
to archive old items would be to use Outlook instead of Outlook
Express, because Outlook lets you set up individual
information store files. To find out if this can be done,
in Outlook Expres, repost in an Outlook Express newsgroup.