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   pstbacker
   Copyright (C) 2010 Alejandro Liu Ly

   This file is part of pstbacker

   pstbacker is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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PST Backer
==========

PST Backer is a small utility to copy the contents of a PST file to 
a different *backup* PST.

It does so by replicating the PST objects from one PST to another
using [Outlook Redemption](http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/).
This means that:

1. Only the changed objects are copied.
2. It can run while Outlook has the PST file open.

Pre-requisites
--------------

[Outlook Redemption](http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/) must be installed.

Installation
------------

Simply copy the `pstbacker.vbs` somewhere.

Configuration
-------------

For each of the PST message store you would like to backup, open it's
properties dialog.  (Usually by right clicking on its icon and
selecting `Properties`).

Enter the following specication in the description (in a single line):

	BACKUP=DRIVE:\file\path

Where Drive can either be a drive letter, for example:

	C:
	D:
	Z:

Or a volume name enclosed in square brackets.  For example:

	[backup]:
	[exchange]:

An example of the specification:

	[backup]:\exchange\MyArchive
	[exchange]:\backups\backup1
	Z:\netbackups\file


Running
-------

Simply enter:

	cscript pstbacker.pst

And it will proceed to check your current Outlook session and generate
backups for all the configured message stores.

For each backed up PST it will create two files:

	.pst
	.idx

The `pst` is a normal PST file that you can open from Outlook.  The
`idx` file is used by the utility to track where each object copy went
to.


-----------------------------

The first version of this utility did not require RDO and simply made
use of the Outlook Data Model.  This version had a lot of quirks and
strange work-arounds.  Eventually it had two fatal problems:

* It did not keep the time-stamp on messages.
* It continuously updated the Move-To menus.