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Saving Outlook Email Folders

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I've started a trial of Cyber Protect Home Office, primarily to back up several thousand .pst emails.  My emails are on a standalone MS Outlook 2010 version and I have them organized into probably 150 or so Outlook folders.  Does anyone know if Cyber Protect Home Office backs up the emails in their respective folders (so that if my hard drive crashes, when I restore them they will be in their proper folders)?  Thanks!

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Douglas, welcome to these public User Forums.

All versions of Acronis backup software will just backup the container .PST files with no knowledge of their internal folder structure or content.

As you are using an older version of Outlook that uses only .PST files, then these should be backed up fine using either a Files & Folders task or a Disks & Partitions task.

With newer versions of Outlook using .OST files, then these are excluded from backup by Microsoft by default.

One key point to note is that Acronis can only backup data that has been written out to disk, so if Outlook is open / active it can have other data held in memory that would not be backed up.

I would recommend creating a backup of your Outlook files then checking the content of the backup image file by double-clicking on it in Explorer and checking that all the .PST files are shown in the correct folder locations.