Backing up emails using outlook vs outlook express

nexusxox · 08-07-2008, 01:29 PM

I wanted to know what is the exact file that is being backed up if a new computer is set up to connect to an exchange server. Or are all the old emails on the server and this is an unnecessary step.

**djaburg** · 08-08-2008, 10:18 AM

If outlook was configured purely as an exchange client, then the messages reside on the server and if was also configured with office file storage, there's a copy of the message on your computer. That comes in handy should you be on the road with a laptop and NOT attached to your network and need access to your messages. Just make sure that the admins are doing their job and backing up the server. If not, everyone's email could potentially vanish.

nexusxox · 08-11-2008, 11:18 AM

I know that the emails are backed up on the server but i am looking for the exact location of that file on the client if i had to back that up.

08-07-2008, 01:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
nexusxox Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 74 OS: platform x	Backing up emails using outlook vs outlook express I wanted to know what is the exact file that is being backed up if a new computer is set up to connect to an exchange server. Or are all the old emails on the server and this is an unnecessary step.

08-08-2008, 10:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
djaburg TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,326 OS: XP SP3/Vista/7 Server 2K/2K3/2K8	Re: Backing up emails using outlook vs outlook express If outlook was configured purely as an exchange client, then the messages reside on the server and if was also configured with office file storage, there's a copy of the message on your computer. That comes in handy should you be on the road with a laptop and NOT attached to your network and need access to your messages. Just make sure that the admins are doing their job and backing up the server. If not, everyone's email could potentially vanish. __________________ Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

08-11-2008, 11:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
nexusxox Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 74 OS: platform x	Re: Backing up emails using outlook vs outlook express I know that the emails are backed up on the server but i am looking for the exact location of that file on the client if i had to back that up.