How to backup ALL emails and contacts in Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail?

[Draeger]

I'd like to backup all my email both emails received and also sent email as well as my contacts in Outlook 2007. Can someone tell me exactly how to do this as in what files and folders to back up, where they are etc?. I looked online and found a Microsoft PST backup tool :-

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/o...personal-folders-backup-tool-HA010075802.aspx

Will that suffice and backup all my email?.

I'd also like to do this for the email and contacts I have within Windows Mail.

Reason I'm asking for advice is that I'm sure the last time I did this I thought I had backed up what I needed ( the .pst files if I recall correctly ) but ended up with just the received emails and lost all my sent emails. That may have been a mistake I made but I wanted to check the exact procedure for doing this.

Many thanks in advance.

*EDIT* - Just searched the forums. Is this Windows "Easy Transfer" a better option?.

 

[kylew]

There's no need to use a tool, just navigate to the directory and copy the PST file yourself. C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Copy it somewhere, then in the event of "restoring" your back up, you can point go through outlook to restore an inbox, and point it at where ever your PST is, or copy your PST back to the default location and point it there.