Data Recovery

Best Ways to Protect Email Data in Outlook PST Files

While backing up the PST files used by Microsoft Outlook to store all relevant data is a good idea, over time it may take longer and longer to back up the file. We look at how by archiving old data and backing up only the most needed data, we can speed up the entire process. One of the most popularly used email client is undoubtedly the Microsoft Outlook application and the file format it uses to store all the important Outlook data is the Personal Folder file or the PST file. If you are...

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Avoiding Data Loss in PST Files

Since Microsoft Outlook stores all the important Outlook data in Personal Storage Files (PST), it is important that Outlook users take regular backups of PST files to avoid data loss. Our article looks at the standard way in which PST files can be backed up. Most Outlook data such as email messages, contacts, tasks, notes, appointments, journal entries, etc. are stored in Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) folders. These folders are typically stored in either one of the...

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Quick tips to use recovery storage groups to recover exchange files

The Recovery Storage Group allows users to create a secondary Exchange data base on the same server being used by the group, so that recovering lost files or entire mailboxes becomes simplified. Exchanges files or mailboxes can be damaged or deleted due to many reasons. The Recovery Storage Group secures the data so that valuable information can be recovered when it gets deleted. Detailed steps for recovering data using the storage group has been given below. The Recovery Storage Group,...

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