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Mail backup will take 4 hours?

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I wanted to make a mail backup but True Image says it will take 4 hours!
This can't be allright, is it?
I had to quit True Image and made a copy of the pst file in seconds.

Is this a bug?
Can it be fixed?

Regards,
Toin

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Don't trust the time estimates from ATI. Let the backup run.
The benefit of the email backup is that each individual email is backed up. The drawback is that it relies on the outlook APIs and the Windows registry keys and that makes the backup less reliable, in particular when you restore to a newly installed OS (b/c registry keys).

I think the best way to backup outlook is to include the PST or OST files in a disk and partition backup.