Automate Outlook Data Backup: Simplified Guide

I. What is Outlook, and where is its data file saved?

The full name of Outlook is Microsoft Office Outlook, which is one of the components of Microsoft Office software suite. Outlook has many functions. You can use it to send and receive emails, manage contact information, keep a diary, arrange schedules, assign tasks, etc.

As an email transmission and collaboration client product of Microsoft Corporation, most users regard this application as the main tool for internal communication at work. Therefore, you can first grasp the location of its internal email storage to deal with email search needs that may arise at any time. Let’s take Outlook 2016 as an example to introduce the storage path of Outlook internal mail data. The specific operation steps are as follows:

Step 1: Run Outlook 2016, select the (File) option in the top menu bar.

Step 2: Next, select the (Account Settings) option in (Account Settings).

Step 3: Then in (Data File), click (Open File Location), and you can open the folder where the Outlook data file is saved.

After understanding the storage location of Outlook internal emails, next, in order to ensure that important emails in Outlook are not lost, we can choose to regularly backup Outlook data. Here I recommend a very convenient and practical data backup tool – Renee Becca , which can help you back up important data automatically at regular intervals, which is very convenient. Let’s take a look at how to use this software to automatically backup Outlook data files.

II. Use Renee Becca to automatically backup Outlook data files

1. What is Renee Becca?

Renee Becca It is a tool specially used for system/hard disk data backup and restoration. It can help you back up and restore important data in your computer, such as programs, system configuration, emails, photos, videos, documents, bookmarks, etc. It adopts leading incremental/differential backup technology, which can save you more time and disk space. In addition to system backup, it also supports partition backup, hard disk backup, file backup, and disk cloning to meet your different needs. In addition, the software also supports the establishment of automatic regular backup plans, which can be set up for daily, weekly, and monthly automatic backups.

2. How to use Renee Becca to automatically backup Outlook data files?

Backing up Outlook data with Renee Becca is very simple, the specific steps are as follows:

Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Becca on the computer, and select the (File Backup) option in the main interface (Backup) column.

Step 2: Next, find the location of the Outlook data file in (source file (device)), and select the content that needs to be backed up. In (Destination), select the hard disk partition where you want to store the backup data. If you do not need regular automatic backup, you can directly click (Backup Now).

If you need to automatically back up Outlook data files at regular intervals, you can make a daily/weekly/monthly automatic backup plan in (Task Scheduler) and click (OK) to enable the automatic backup function.

In (Backup Scheme)-(Scheme Type), you can choose a suitable backup scheme mode according to your personal needs. Renee Becca has 5 backup schemes to choose from, namely version chain mode, single version mode, overall mode, incremental mode and differential mode.

Step 3: Finally, click the (Backup Now) button to start executing the backup file command according to your settings, and you can see the progress of all backup tasks on the task bar. After the backup is complete, you can click the (Restore) button to restore the files to the specified hard disk when necessary.