by Andrew Broad
16. October 2009 00:50
Many small businesses owners would probably agree that their most important data is held in outlook, especially all of their business contacts. So this is probably the one single store of information that they can't do without. That being said, it is also probably most likely to be the one thing that isn't being backed up, that is if you have a backup solution in place. Following from my last post about online backups, I thought I'd just do a quick post to show what you should be backing up in order to make sure all of your outlook data is safe. Quite simply there is one folder that you should back up:
- On Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<your_username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
- On Windows Vista or 7: C:\Users\<your_username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
If you have that folder backed up, you should be able to recover your outlook data should your PC fail, or get lost or damaged. I'll post in the future on how to actually perform the restore, but if you need to know before hand please contact me and I'll be happy to divulge the information.
NOTE: I should mention that the above only really applies if you aren't using an exchange server. If you are using an exchange server then all of your important information will be backed up on that.