OE Backup Tiger 1.2 - Outlook Express Backup Tool

OE Backup Tiger is a simple but sufficiently capable solution for creating manual backups of all your Outlook Express data (messages, contacts, signatures, settings, rules and more) easily and quickly. You cannot schedule OE Backup Tiger backups, though, and more restoration flexibility would be nice.

Backups, they say, are a necessity. If your hard disk gives up or disaster strikes, your precious data — including your emails and contacts — will be gone, possibly forever, unless, they say, unless you have a recent backup copy at a safe, remote location. The remote location part is important, but possibly the most difficult unless, of course, you use an online backup system.

OE Backup Tiger cannot help you with it. But OE Backup Tiger makes creating backup copies of all your Outlook Express data a snap. Make regular backups with OE Backup Tiger to some removable medium a habit, and you are protected from hardware or software problems (as well as human error) that affect your computer.

Using OE Backup Tiger, you can backup and restore email and Usenet messages, contacts, account data and options, signatures, rules and blocked senders. Unfortunately, as easy as it is to create a solid backup in a few steps with OE Backup Tiger, it does not offer scheduling itself and cannot be commanded from a scheduling tool like Windows's system scheduler.

It's nice that backups created with OE Backup Tiger can be protected with a password, but compression, a not-so-proprietary format and self-restoring archives would be nice, too. Flexibility when it comes to restoring — restoring only certain folders, for example — is another area where OE Backup Tiger can still improve.