PST Backup
Email / PST Backup
Business Email backup is a critical consideration for enterprises due to the often irreplaceable and confidential nature of PST files and the implications of losing this data.
The protection of business email becomes a requisite consideration in order for corporate governance compliance and managing reputational and legal risk effectively. Emails are undoubtedly some of the most valuable and consequential documents for business, so backing up and being able to recover PSTs is an integral feature in an enterprise PC backup solution. It is also vital for organizations to be able to backup open PST to ensure effective business email protection.
PST files
Most organizations have Microsoft Exchange implemented but have mailbox quotas resulting in corporate email on laptops and desktops stored as Microsoft Outlook Archive PST files. PST files are a major challenge for most backup applications. PST files are typically large in size and users often have multiple of these files.
The Problem with PST files
- It typically takes a significant time to backup corporate psts with high impact on users during backup.
- Large files that change daily –impact on bandwidth and storage.
- Can be stored in non-standard locations on computers making them typically difficult to locate and include for backup.
- Can be easily lost through accidental deletion, file corruption or a virus.
The Solution – Automatically backup business PST files – even when open.
Cibecs includes a number of features that ensure this often unprotected data is backed up and easily recoverable.
- Microsoft Outlook integration optimizes the of multiple archive PST files resulting in fast and efficient backups.
- Patch Backup technology and compression reducing the daily backup size by up to 99%.
- Open File support through integration with Microsoft VSS allows PST files to be backed up while Microsoft Outlook is open.
- Shortcuts to auto detect location of PST files.
- The ability to recover previous versions of a PST file.
Benefits
Cibecs ensures that you automatically backup corporate pst files and your enterprise can backup psts while open- alleviating management risk and ensuring corporate governance compliance.
- Centrally managed, automatic backup of critical business emails
- Simplified compliance and business audits
- Significantly reduced company risk
- IT saves time during restores
Read our Case Study on how UTi won a legal dispute by recovering lost email with Cibecs
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