Backing up Outlook .PST

Retro Techy · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:05

Trying to sort out something at work.
We have an IMAP account, which doesn't have a great amount of storage, so every month of so I need to delete some old emails, with the storage we're allowed, I keep about 6 months of emails.
I've been asked to start backing up the .PST so that we keep all the old records I'm deleting, but the problem is that the software I've tried to do that, including a plugin for Outlook, always overwrites the old backup.
Can anyone recommend a program to backup the .PST but make a new backup everytime?

brendy · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:11

why not mount the pst as an archive and auto archive into it?

s452 · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:12

could you not transfer the created back up file to another location (eg external HDD or another folder every time a backup is created?

Dazzazeus · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:15

Create a folder called pst archive and save the files to there with the date at the end to stop them overwriting?

lsg1r · 16 Mar 2016 at 14:08

Dazzazeus said:
Create a folder called pst archive and save the files to there with the date at the end to stop them overwriting?

this is what I'd be doing, either that or getting the imap folder size increased

OspreyO · 18 Mar 2016 at 14:25

Thats what I do I just create a dated PST file and drag it into that. I also use a tool to remove all the attachments from the PST and store them separately. Saves a ton of space.

nightmare99 · 19 Mar 2016 at 14:22

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