, one Drive or Dropbox as a pst backup location. Theoretically, you could use your One. Drive/Dropbox as an online backup location. You would then backup your pst-file to your One. Drive/Dropbox folder and then have it automatically synch to the cloud storage.
Also, will onedrive backup pst files?
Theoretically, you could use your One. Drive/Dropbox as an online backup location. You would then backup your pst-file to your One. Drive/Dropbox folder and then have it automatically synch to the cloud storage.
No, it is not recommended to use a Cloud storage folder for your active pst-file.
An answer is that create a new folder called “PST Files” Upload your PST files into the new folder you created These files cannot be in the Desktop, Documents or Pictures folder in order to sync properly. You cannot sync the folder that you just created. It can simply remain in the cloud for safekeeping.
However, you can place a copy of your pst-file there, so you’ll create an on-line backup copy too. Due to the active connection and lock Outlook has on the file, One. Drive, Dropbox or something similar like Google Drive, will continuously try to upload the file and thus use a lot of network bandwidth.
Why is OneDrive taking so long to sync with Outlook?
When you add a POP3 email account to Outlook or create archives or backup files from any of your accounts in Outlook, an Outlook Data File (.pst) may be created within your One, and drive. If this data file becomes large it can slow down your One, and drive sync.
Less When you add a POP3 email account to Outlook or create archives or backup files from any of your accounts in Outlook, an Outlook Data File (.pst) may be created within your One, and drive. If this data file becomes large it can slow down your One. Drive sync and may show “Processing changes” or “A file is in use”.
How long will a one-drive backup last?
Sorry, they will achieve that one-drive can be used for whole backup in 3-5 years ever after they will achieve that you can use not hard copy, but hard-link to files, which are stored actually in other place (this will take less HDD for store files – now they are duplicated – where they are stored + one-drive folder).