Let us first discuss the various causes for Outlook failure. If you face any problem like opening your personal or offline folders, you should suspect that your outlook has got corrupted. The most common problems faced by outlook users are: Corruption caused due to 2 GB .pst file size limit, case of accidentally deleted messages, contacts and notes, corruption inside the .pst file header, corruption caused due to compacting of the .pst file and corruption of .pst file when used over network. Apart from common causes of corruption mentioned above, there are many other facts that cause your outlook to fail, like hard disk failure, virus attack and sabotage as mentioned earlier.

Email Recovery software can come to your rescue, to help you get back all your lost emails. Is there any thing you can do before your outlook fails? A preventive measure that you can always take is regularly backing up outlook pst files. Choose an appropriate backup solution that suits your need. However, a home computer user will require just a simple procedure of copying your pst files to a CD/DVD. But, for a business house or professionals, whose pst files are very large in size, a reliable and automated email backup software should be helpful.

Many people actually start to backup after they lose data. The best practice is to backup your crucial data, before you encounter a data loss situation. Thus, to conclude backing up Microsoft Outlook emails is a critical operation for every Outlook user that would regret losing them.