Learn how to store your email database with Outlook Express backup!

It is absolutely critical and vital to backup and restore the outlook express emails, accounts, address books, accounts rules and signatures to prevent loss.

Backing up outlook express will help you to avoid loosing email information and to secure your messages. By doing this you don’t need to worry about loosing emails and are able to recover the data if an accident happens.

With Outlook Express backup you are able to copy and store the Outlook Express email database.

Outlook Express can be a victim of virus attacks, software and system failures. Hard disk crashes or accidental deletion of mails do happen. This kind of incidents can result in loosing important and crucial e-mails. The cost from this type of disasters can cost a lot to business and individuals. It also shows a lack of computer planning by the user by not doing outlook express backup or other backups procedures which protects the emails.

Outlook Express backup secures users against disastrous incidents and provides recovery of lost, corrupted or virus affected emails.

Outlook express backup involves copying and storing (backing up) of:

1. Emails.
2. Address book.
3. Identities and message rules.
4. Email attachments and news messages.
5. Signatures.
6. Blocked senders list.
7. Mail folders.
8. Personal settings.

Microsoft’s Outlook express doesn’t provide any backup utility feature or any function for restore and backup.

This backup needs to be done either manually or through the use of outlook express backup software’s, wizards, tools and utilities.

To manual backup outlook express involves searching for the ".dbx" files in the computer system. Or in other words locating the special email storage folder in the computer file system. For Windows 2000 and XP the location of these .dbx files is normally in the user or application directory. For Windows 98 and lower versions it is located in the windows or documents directory.

These .dbx files have then to be compressed (zipped) and copied onto another location of the hard disk, burned on to CD, on to DVD, copied onto another hard disk or stored on a remote location.

To recover and restore mails from the Outlook express backup the user need to copy the .dbx files to the location of the .dbx files on their computer systems.

Many software tools, utilities and wizards exist on the software market which provides this type of outlook express backup.

These software should provide:

1. An interface which is easy to use to backup the outlook express. A interface which is very easy to use to backup the outlook express.
2. Automatic scheduler program which backs up outlook express without any supervision required.
3. Automatic and quick compression of the backed up outlook express database.
4. Secure access and authorized usage through password protected archives.
5. Option to select the outlook express data that the user desires to backup.

Most of these backup outlook express wizards, tools, utilities are single clicked. A single click of the user not only backs up all the outlook express data but also provides recovery of lost emails or outlook express data.

Outlook express backup can be stored on the same PC but in different partition where the OS is not installed, on DVD, on CD, copied onto another hard disk or stored on remote computers.

System crashes, thefts, system failures, accidental deletions, virus attacks or power outages can quickly destroy or corrupt the emails. It can also destroy outlook settings, the address book or message rules.

This certainly can be avoided through regular outlook express backup. By doing regular backup the computer user can concentrate on other important issues instead of dealing with disasters.