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How to back up your emails to your onedrive?

Anonymous
2024-10-07T11:30:37+00:00

Hi,

I have 2 questions:

  1. How to back up all my emails to my Onedrive as I am running out of storage on my business email and I can't upgrade any further. I have 1TB space on my Onedrive so I need to know how to move all my emails there. I need help ASAP.
  2. If you have created a workflow on Power Automate to move all emails to my Onedrive but it is only taking the new emails. If you delete the email from your inbox and recycle bin, does it delete it permanently?

Thank you,

Hans

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For business | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T08:07:58+00:00

    Dear Hans,

    May I know whether you have found an answer?

    1. Export the emails to the .pst files. Then you can upload them to OneDrive for Business and you can download them and import them to Outlook at any time. I think that it is the simplest way to back up the emails.

    Export emails, contacts, and calendar items to Outlook using a .pst file - Microsoft Support

    1. The Power Automate way you mentioned isn't an actual way for backing up the emails. It is just copying emails as the .eml files to OneDrive for Business which will not reduce the Outlook storage. The backup process is to use the Export way in Outlook. Then you can safely delete them. If you delete them and don't back up them, your emails data will be lost.

    Hope that the information above helps you!

    Thanks for your time and effort.

    Sincerely

    Cliff | Microsoft Community Moderator

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-07T12:34:56+00:00

    Depends on the type of mail account whether any backup is available.

    If Exchange or IMAP there is no backup available other than with Exchange and dedicated EX backup utilities

    Further a connected MS Outlook data file cannot be located on a Lan or cloud (OneDrive) location, that is not supported by MS - it can lead to file corruption.

    If you have a full echange mail account, not outlook.com then you can use the MS Inplace Archive option

    I assume its the mail account space and not disk space?

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