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Mark D.11
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Best Practice for Syncing PST File

Ok, I've read a bunch of posts on this topic and I understand the issues about PST file size, upload speed, etc. I have a PST file about 500MB, which will stay about that size and I just want to bac...
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Mark
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11 years ago

manually upload a copy of the file after Outlook is closed

For data integrities sake that is what I would do.

Another article said that Dropbox even knows to somehow only sync the changed portion of the PST file rather than uploading the entire file every time

If you copy/replace the file each time then this is correct :)

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