XPpro64 Sp2 & MS Office 2007 - Outlook Backup to Server

[Phipps]

Greetings,


I am not new to Outlook. Have been using it for a few years. However, i've rarely made use of the dozens of features that make life allot easier for users.

My request for help is regarding Office 2007 on wXPpro64-SP2 that is being used as our home & small business needs. My wife and I function a non-profit organization and what we would like to do is backup our eMail and even other folders on both our laptops periodically. We make use of RJ45 / Ethernet connection thru a hub. No internet, just a closed network inside our home allowing us to communicate with each other, share folders, printers and other peripherals, music, video and other multimedia. We have over 2T storage on our server. Which has only 25% storage used. So, we have plenty of server storage. Our laptop's have smaller hard drives. Thus, the request to save / archive our email and other folders to our server system.

Now that i've explained it all. I was hoping someone may shed some light on it for me on how to accomplish this. I did perform a search at this forum site but was unable to locate specifically what i'm trying to do. The folders that i'd like to backup from our laptops to our server storage system are listed below.

• eMail Archive (inbox, sent items, contacts, .pst folders, etc)
  
• Audio (full size files from recording, usually proprietary file types)
• Video (full size files from recording, usually proprietary file types)
• Animations (full size files from recording, usually proprietary file types)
• Sales Records
• Tax Records
• Tasks
• Calendar Events
• Contacts

Again, this is a fixed / wired network that is closed to anything outside such as internet. So, FTP options for backing these things up is not an option for us. There likely will be other folders deemed to be also archived and put onto the server.

Now the question is if there is a way for us to set this up as an automated task? Meaning if there is a way for us to schedule something (Outlook or Task Scheduler, etc) to allow us to set a date / time for the laptops to toss those designated folders onto our server. Of course we'd want to specify where on the server. First, is this even possible to do specifically what we're asking?

My second question will be posted as a separate posting as it is really something on it's own merit.


Thank you for your constructive assistance,
Phipps