Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Backing Up and Restoring Data

An important part of working with a computer system is ensuring that you protect any critical data against loss. You protect your data by making a backup, a copy of the information that you can store on another disk or on a backup tape. In the event of a critical failure, you can then use this copy to replace or restore any lost information.

Outlook 2007 stores information in two primary ways: in a set of personal folders or in an Exchange Server mailbox, which resides in a shared database on the computer running Exchange Server. With an Exchange Server mailbox, your message store is located on the server. The network administrator is generally responsible for backing up the server, and with it, the Exchange Server ...