Dear all I would appreciate if u help me know how to creat back up of emails in outlook 2003 and then how to extract them back. and finally what is that messege of email archive all about. Abdul Naseer Ansari Afghanistan

Download and install pfbackup from Microsoft's website. That will backup your pst files. Archive will take your emails at a designated time and move them to an archive pst file. Do a search for Auto archive in Outlook Help; that will explain it in much more detail. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Hi, I think a simple auto archive/backup which is built-in outlook 2003 solution will help you to backup. The followings are the detailed steps as provided in Microsoft. Do any of the following: >>>>>>>>>>>> Specify default AutoArchive settings for all Microsoft Outlook folders AutoArchive is turned on by default. However, you can change its default settings. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Other tab. Click AutoArchive. With Run AutoArchive every n days selected, specify how often to run AutoArchive. Select the options that you want. To apply the changes to all folders, click Apply these settings to all folders now. This will override custom archive settings that you've specified on individual folders. Note If you change the archive file listed under Move old items to, it's changed for all folders that use the default AutoArchive settings. Specify AutoArchive settings for individual folders On the Go menu, click Folder List, right-click the folder you want to specify settings for, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu. Click the AutoArchive tab. Specify whether you want to archive this folder and if so, whether to use the default AutoArchive settings or your own settings. To archive to a file other than the default one, specify a different file name in the Move old items to box. The next time AutoArchive runs on this folder, Outlook will automatically create the new archive file for items in this folder. Archive items manually On the File menu, click Archive. Specify whether to archive all folders using their AutoArchive settings (that is, either the default settings, or per-folder settings you specified for individual folders) or whether to archive an individual folder using the options you specify in this dialog box. Note To archive to a file other than the default one, specify a different file name in the Archive file box. Outlook automatically creates another archive file for items in the selected folder. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you want to go for backup mail items and see it everytime as shortcut and even search it, the better option is "exchange vault" (symantec enterprise vault) which helps to retain the shortcut of the backup/archive mail and exchange server will be free with less storage. Look into enterprise vault- http://www.salem-radha.com/Symantec... With regards, Radha http://www.salem-radha.com

I find auto-archive useless, but that's just me. It is not a backup program. If you're running an Exchange Server, then there's no need to backup your Personal Folders. If you're running stand-alone, then go with my suggestion in Response #1. Life's more painless for the brainless.