{"id":898,"date":"2012-07-23T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-11-14T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:55:54","slug":"backing-up-outlook-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/backing-up-outlook-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing up Outlook email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up your outlook inbox, local folders and sent folder to a .pst file on a regular basis can serve you well if your computer ever crashes. Making these backups a weekly or monthly routine is a good idea. To backup your Outlook 2010 email, please follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Bring up Outlook 2010<\/p>\n<p>2. Click on the File Tab<\/p>\n<p>3. Click on Open<\/p>\n<p>4. Click on Import (You will see the blue and green arrows)<\/p>\n<p>5. Choose Export to a file; then click next<\/p>\n<p>6. Choose Outlook Data File .pst; then click next<\/p>\n<p>7. Select the folder to export from; make sure you have &#8220;Include Subfolders&#8221; check at the bottom and click Next<\/p>\n<p>8. Save the exported file to an area that is not on your local hard drive. Saving it to pangea or an portable external disk is a good idea. Name the file something that is descriptive such as &#8220;backup_sent_072212.pst&#8221;. It is a good idea to make the date part of the exported filename so it is easy to tell when you made your last backup.<\/p>\n<p>9. Under &#8220;Options&#8221; read the three choices; I usually pick &#8220;Replace duplicates with items exported&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That is all there is to it! If you need more information or have questions, feel free to post a ticket to http:\/\/cnsit.natsci.colostate.edu\/help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up your outlook inbox, local folders and sent folder to a .pst file on a regular basis can serve you well if your computer ever crashes. Making these backups a weekly or monthly routine is a good idea. To backup your Outlook 2010 email, please follow these instructions: 1. Bring up Outlook 2010 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-mail","category-general-cnsit","category-knowledge-base","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}