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Outlook makes gigantic pst files. When an incremental backup is run, the file has been changed, so every backup the entire huge pst file is copied in its entirety. Is there a way to avoid this? It seems like it's a pretty common thing to want to do?

Thanks,
Dave

The usual technique is to exclude PST files. This works best if they're
only copies of what's on your Exchange server, but doesn't work if you have
archived PST files that only reside on laptops/desktops (which are evil for
other reasons).

If you want to back up PST files, you really need to use a source dedupe
product, like Avamar, Asigra, or Puredisk.

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Outlook makes gigantic pst files. When an incremental backup is run, the
file has been changed, so every backup the entire huge pst file is copied in
its entirety. Is there a way to avoid this? It seems like it's a pretty
common thing to want to do?

Thanks,
Dave

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Thanks to the PST file format and email indexing, even if single email is added a whole bunch of changes happen to the entire PST file. Worst is when some bytes are inserted at arbitrary locations causing the block boundaries to shift

Most software don't detect these byte/block changes and backup full file.

But latest DLO offering does address the problem properly.

You can also look at - www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
This new (enterprise) PC backup offering does a good job of incremental backups PLUS saves singles copy of emails/docs duplicate across users saving a _huge_ amount of store and bandwidth.

Jaspreet
(part of druvaa team)

I have used the product from dataStor with excellent results. I have run over 400 full backups to a single 320GB HDD.

www.dataStor.com

- Not affiliated with dataStor

It seems like it's a appealing accepted affair to wish to do? Is there a way to abstain this? It seems like it's a pretty common affair to wish to do?



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It seems like it's a appealing accepted affair to wish to do? Is there a way to abstain this? It seems like it's a pretty common affair to wish to do?



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You heard about Mimosa Systems? They can address you email archiving and also PST problem. Of course, it's just a application, you will still need a storage to store.