Julian cruelly said
"Since no one else has said it, you restore from the backup ;-)"
He is of course right that this should be what would all be able to. I'm
pretty obsessive about backup (bitter experience) but am not entirely happy
with the arrangements I have for my Outlook data.
My backup routines (using Retrospect Backup) is fully automatic and produces
multiple backups of my files to other machines on my network including one
which is in an outbuilding well away from the rest of the network (I count
this as an off-site backup). The way Retrospect works is such that I can
recover any file as it was on any day since I last started using Retrospect
(now about 3 years). So far the size of my backfiles have not managed to
outstrip the availability of cheap hard disk space which I now provide by
way of samba running on Linux.
However, to stop my backup growing too fast I have to exclude my outlook pst
file, because it is so large and I backup Outlook using an alternative
strategy which means I have backups going back just 3 days with an
additional backup made monthly which I expect to grow at a rate that will
allow me to keep about 12 months history. This leaves a whole if I fail to
notice a problem within three days that effects data not in the last monthly
backup.
What I really want is an automated incremental backup of Outlook that just
and new email to the archive each day. Any thought as to how this might be
achieved.
Ewan Davis - Director - Woodcote Consulting
- Chairman - British Computer Society - Primary Health
Care Group
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