How To Back Up Your Emails in Outlook?

If you use email for work or business, you most likely have an Exchange or IMAP account. Exchange and IMAP servers automatically archive your email so you may access it at any time, anywhere. Ask your administrator how to view your previous emails if you have an Exchange account. Nonetheless, Outlook makes email backups simple.

If you wish to back up the message folders locally, you can use AutoArchive to automatically relocate or remove older things, or you can export the items to a. pst file that you may restore and use later.

Steps to Back Up Emails in Outlook:

1] Select File menu in Outlook.

2] Select Open & Export > Import/Export.

3] Select the option Export to a file, and then click on Next.

4] Now, select the option Outlook Data File (.pst), and select Next.

5] Select the email folder that you need to back up and click on Next.

6] Select a location and set a name in the text box for your backup file. Select Options for how you want to export the emails and then click on Finish.

7] To ensure no one has access to your files, you can enter and confirm a password, and then click on OK.

And that’s how you back up emails in Outlook.

Note: The messages in a .pst file are the same as other messages. You have the liberty to forward, reply, or search through the stored messages like other messages.