personal folder backup as a scheduled task

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Is there any way to set up the personal folder backup for oulook 2003 for XP
to run automatically?

 

[DL]

You can set an option to backup every day, you need more?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Is there any way to set up the personal folder backup for oulook
2003 for XP to run automatically?

If you want to run a scheduled task to back up your PST file(s), you could
use a batch file. Make sure Outlook is *completely* closed at the time
(i.e., outlook.exe must not be running in the background). I personally like
to use robocopy (from the Windows resource kit; you can download it) -

robocopy <source>\ <destination>\ /e /r:1 /w:1

for <source>, use "c:\whatever path\my data is in"> etc. You can keep your
PST files in whatever folder you like - with Outlook closed, you can move
them to c:\data\outlook or something logical, and when you re-open Outlook
and it complains that it can't find the file, direct it there. I like to
point My Documents at c:\data as well, so I can keep everything in one
place.