Backing up Outlook contacts/calendar

[theonlywhiteout]

How do I go about backing up the contact and calendar for outlook? Are they files? Do I simply do some sort of export/import?

[Ashartus]

You can either export, or make a copy of the outlook.pst file. The location of the file depends on the version of Windows and Outlook, but you can find it on your account settings (I think - I'm not sitting at a computer with Outlook right now) or do a search for the file.

[Rathji]

^^ What he said.

Steps are slightly different depending on version. Here is a tutorial for all versions that I just found via google.

http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm