Could you clarify your definition of 'backing up'? There may be some specific
technical use of the term that was I was not aware of, which would help. I
suspect most lay people would consider almost any form of duplicating the
data in a different place to be 'backing up'. Interestingly our IT dept. will
only talk about 'archiving' our data, which they certainly consider to be
'backing up''!

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Exporting is not backing up either.
Just make a copy of your Outlook data file and keep it in a safe place.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"David NF Harris" wrote in message
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Oh. They seem the same to me, so no, no "backup".
Since reading various other posts I have exported the laboriously renewed
Contacts as a .pst file, but it's difficult to know if it has worked
properly
since you can only open it within Outlook (AFAIK). Can't export as CSV as
the
company hasn't installed the converters (and won't for some reason).

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Did you ever back up your data? Archiving and backup are not the same.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"David NF Harris" wrote in
message
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I wished to copy my Contacts to my new phone. Carefully Archived Outlook
(several times to different names). Synchronise, and the Empty phone
wipes
out Contacts (but not Calendar).
Ok, back up from Archive I think to myself. But it seems that the ONLY
folder Archive does NOT back up is Contacts - can't find any anywhere.
Any help possible?