Backing Up Outlook Files
If you are transferring your email from one system to another or just want to back up your emails, calendar items, tasks, and other data, we suggest you backup your Outlook data before making the transition. This way, you have an extra copy of your data in case of emergency or just to keep as a backup. When transferring systems, you will need to do this so that you can import that data into the new system.

To backup Outlook data

1. Open Outlook.
2. From the File menu, click Import and Export.

• Click Export to a file and click Next.

1. Click Personal Folder File (.pst). This is the best option for backing up and restoring data in Outlook.
2. Click Next.

1. Click Personal Folders. If you are already connected to a mail server, it may say Mailbox Firstname Lastname. Keep in mind this is a tree structure program, which means if you select the top of the tree it will select everything below.
2. Select the Include Subfolders check box so it knows to save data from every area.
3. Click Next.

• Click Browse to save the file somewhere we can see it more easily.

For this example, we are saving the file to the desktop (the front screen of your computer), and giving it the name OutlookBackup. You can give it any name you want and save it to any location.

1. In the Save in list, select Desktop.
2. In the File name box, enter a name for the file. 
3. Click OK.

• Click Finish and it will back up the data to the specified PST file. Later, you can import this file into your new setup.