Stellar Mail Backup

Backup task consists of the entire set of preferences made prior taking backup. There are a number of things, which needed to be taken care of before starting the backup process. Before starting the backing up operations, you need to decide on the Backup Type (Full/Incremental/Differential), Compression Level, Backup File name, Destination drive, Password, Consolidation value, Scheduling Frequency etc. All these settings combined with a particular backup operation is known as the backup task.

The concept of mail backup is associated with the security concern over your important emails. Suppose that you have many important official mails with high degree of criticality, which you cannot afford to loose. For such a situation, it is wise to keep a safe copy of the important mails by taking mail backup. With Stellar Mail Backup utility, you can set the backup frequency and schedule the backup task, so that backup operation for all your important mails can be performed every day at a specified time, whereas the less important ones can be performed at the specified time of a week/month.

As the name suggests, Full Backup is the complete backup of the selected items, within the current time. This process takes a lot of storage space and time. However, from one full backup file, the system can be completely restored. Incremental backup takes the backup of only the recently modified files, since last full or incremental backup. As, modifications are usually minimal, incremental backup helps you avoid creating multiple copies of the same data and considers only the recent changes. Hence, incremental backup is smaller in size and quicker than the full backup. For restoring data from incremental backups, you need to have all the incremental backups and the first full backup file.

The differential backup is the backup of only the files changed, since last full backup. While restoring from differential backup, you need to have the recent full backup and the latest differential backup file.

Yes, you can mount the backed up file as a virtual drive on your computer and view the mailboxes, without even restoring the backup image.