Backing up email

Acronis True Image 2014 allows you to back up messages, accounts and settings for Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, Microsoft Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Windows Live. Email backup is a subset of file-level backups that backs up predefined folders and requires minimum user selections. However, if need be, you can select Microsoft Outlook components and folders individually.

What to back up

You can select the following items:

• Messages contained in .PST/.DBX Database Files
• Email accounts

For Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013:

• Mail Folders
• Calendar
• Contacts
• Tasks
• Notes
• Signatures
• News Folders
• User Settings
• Address Book

For Microsoft Outlook Express:

• Mail Folders
• Address Book

Acronis True Image 2014 provides backup of IMAP (Internet Messages Access Protocol) mail folders for Microsoft Outlook. This means that you can back up folders stored on a mail server. For Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail only backup of local email folders is available.

Take note that Acronis True Image 2014 does not support Unicode characters in the items backed up using the Email backup type.

How to back up

To back up your email:

If you want to back up Windows Live Mail, please close it before you start the backup operation.

1. On the Backup and recovery tab, click Other backups and then select Email backup. This will open the E-mail Backup window.

   

2. In the Source area, specify items to include by selecting the corresponding check boxes.
3. [optional step] To change the default destination, click Browse and specify a new destination for the backup.
4. [optional step] Click the link to the right of Schedule and set the required schedule, if necessary. For more information see Scheduling. To run the backup on the schedule, click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list. The backup with the settings you have made will run according to the schedule.
5. [optional step] To assign a specific name to the backup, type the name in the Backup name field instead of the default one.
6. [optional step] Change the backup scheme, if necessary. For more information see Backup schemes.
7. [optional step] Click Backup options to set the options for the backup being configured. For more information see Backup options.
8. Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediately. You can also delay the start of backup for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list.

Note that you will have to specify your Windows account name and password. This is done for confidentiality reasons. See details in Windows account.