Backing Up Outlook Tip
What the heck do you with the “deleted items” folder? You know it’s there for a reason, otherwise Outlook, or Outlook Express would just simply delete your stuff straight into bit-heaven, and not put it here. (obviously, we do know in fact, that it’s there in case we change our minds, but it still adds more ‘decisions’ to a life that has a lot as it is)
Below I have described how I go about 1. Backing up Outlook,
and 2. How I treat this particular folder.
Before executing the backup routine with Outlook to back up all email, I first take care of the “Deleted Items” folder:
1. I run through the same menu items as if I were going to back up Outlook, but I first back up just this folder into my backup drive: I: ( this drive is on a physically separate hard drive).
.. But I select only “Deleted Items”:
.. Then I change the default name that Outlook is trying to give to me, “backup.pst“, to deleteditemsbackup.pst.
(probably would have been a good idea to add a date at the end)
2. Once that’s done, I go into the Deleted Items folder and slaughter the entire thing, knowing that I have a backup now.
3. Then I go ahead and run through the menus again, but this time, I can safely back up the entire folder system, knowing it won’t take all day because I have a billion things in the Deleted Items folder. I click on the top node, and include all folders:
So what did that accomplish? After all, I’m still taking room with the first back up file, “deleteditemsbackup.pst”.
Answer: I have that stuff segregated. I can easily delete it when I’m comfortable that I don’t need it anymore. Before doing it this way, I had no choice but to use up room in the overly-crowded Backup.pst.
Backing Up Firefox
To back up your Firefox bookmarks,
Backup everything in “C:\Documents and Settings\your-name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.*” which have the extensions:
*.js, *.html, and *.db.
Backing Up Your Wordpress Data blog
I’ll just point to the document:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
Note:
This does back up the following: Your blog entries and comments
This does not back up the following:
(for example you changed header.php or sidebar.php, but you should have these
already in some kind of backup routine of your own (right?)
The Backup Routine Itself
The link I placed above will assume that you’ve already navigated into the phpMyAdmin utility screen.
So before going to that link, you will already need to know:
At this point is where you can head to the Back up Tutorial in the Wordpress docs:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
