Personal Folders Backup tool

Microsoft Office Assistance: Using the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool

This is an overview of how to use the Personal Folders backup tool.

I like to configure my desktop and laptop to save all data to a folder (oddly enough) named Data (e.g. D:\Data), including my Outlook PST or OST data files. This way, I can backup a single folder (which is very large...) and have all my data in one place.

I typically put my Data folder on a non-system partition, so if I really hose my system disk and have to restore the system, none of my data is touched during the restore.

This link includes the Personal Folders Backup Tool.