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To begin with, this column effectively addresses email backup issues. There are different ways to backup your data, depending upon the mail client you use (for example, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Messenger).

This page deals with backing up your Netscape Messenger address book, while this has information on address books in Outlook Express as well.

Users of Microsoft Outlook 2000 can follow these instructions. Outlook stores contacts, emails and other critical information in a file called outlook.pst. You can use Windows Explorer to look for a file labelled *.pst in your local hard drive and copy it to your target backup drive or storage device (like a floppy). Ideally, the entire C:\Windows\Application\Sata\Microsoft\Outlook folder ought to be copied manually.

You can also visit this section on how to create a backup of your Personal Folders in Microsoft Outlook.

Losing email and recreating your address book is anything but easy. Bubbles, my pet parrot, lost his data a week ago and is still trying to get his social life back in order.

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

Backup and restore Eudora Mail | Netscape: Backing Up
How To Backup | Backing up Email and Favourites/ Bookmarks

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