Windows Mail is included with all versions of Windows Vista and is the successor to Outlook Express which was included with Windows XP. If you are using Windows Mail and want to backup your email autmatically, SecureBackup makes it easy.

The default location of where Vista stores your Windows Mail files is as follows:

C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

In this case, the {USERNAME} text above would be replaced with your actual Windows username.

If you were to open Windows Explorer and browse to your C:\Users\{USERNAME} folder, you would typically not see the “AppData” folder listed. This is because it is a hidden folder. SecureBackup, however, shows all hidden folders and allows you to browse them with ease.

Backup Windows Mail

As shown in the screenshoot above, you can easily browse to your Windows Mail folder. Simply check the box next to “Windows Mail” to backup all of your important email documents as well as other related information. For example, not only will your email and email folders be backed up, but your email account login information will be backed up as well. Your account login information is what you enter into the “Tools” -> “Accounts…” screen within Windows Mail when you setup your email account.

As you can see, automatically backing up your email with SecureBackup is both fast and painless.

SecureBackup 3.1 - File Archiving Support

We are happy to announce the release of SecureBackup 3.1 which adds a new file archiving capability to our online file storage service. This new feature allows you to set a desired level of retention for your backup files and works on a per-backup-job basis. In other words, for each backup job you create, you can now tell SecureBackup to automatically retain anywhere from zero to nine older copies of your backup files. When SecureBackup detects a change in your file, it will automatically create an archive of the older copy and begin to backup the newer file immediately.

Each archive file is marked with a “{archive-TIMESTAMP}” extension and is also highlighted with an orange background within the “Restore Files” window of the SecureBackup software. This way you can easily see that they are archives of the original. The TIMESTAMP takes the form of the year as 4 digits, followed by 2 digits each for the month, day, hour, and minute of the original backup date. The filename of the archive will have the date and time appended right onto the filename so that you can easily distinguish when that file was originally backed up.

A file storage solution that allows for multiple levels of archives comes in handy. For example, when you accidentally delete data within a document you are working on, it would be nice to be able to restore an older file version that you have archived of which contains the data you accidentally deleted. I’m sure many of us have accidently destroyed something we were working on and wished we had an older copy lying around!

Storing older versions of files is now a completely automated and painless process with the SecureBackup software but it does require that you are using SecureBackup PRO. The SecureBackup HOME edition does not provide this feature. The more archives that you retain, the more backup space you will need. Using archive levels was therefore considered as a feature for customers who are paying for a dedicated amount of space such as those who are using SecureBackup PRO.

With SecureBackup PRO, you can now retain multiple copies of your backup files with ease. The new file archiving feature allows you to backup up to nine older copies of your files. And as always, the SecureBackup software is free and there is no additional charge to existing customers to upgrade to SecureBackup 3.1.