, one Drive (and other cloud solutions) continually syncs the local folder. It won’t be able to sync the pst because Outlook has a lock on it and as a result, the pst file could become corrupted and data loss occur.
Theoretically, you could use your One. Drive/Dropbox as an online backup location. You would then backup your pst-file to your One. Drive/Dropbox folder and then have it automatically synch to the cloud storage.
This is an unsupported scenario and Microsoft will not provide support for it. While you could use One. Drive or another cloud service to store backup copies of your data files, its not recommended due to the large size of many pst files: uploading a large data file can take “forever”.
No, it is not recommended to use a Cloud storage folder for your active pst-file.
How do I backup my pst file?
However, you can place a copy of your pst-file there, so you’ll create an on-line backup copy too. Due to the active connection and lock Outlook has on the file, One. Drive, Dropbox or something similar like Google Drive, will continuously try to upload the file and thus use a lot of network bandwidth.
While I was writing we ran into the question “Is it safe to back up Outlook pst files?”.
These are safe to use because they are designed to work with Outlook data files. However, unlike backing up a file to One. Drive or Drop. Box, you can’t download the pst file to another computer or when needed.
How long will a one-drive backup last?
Sorry, they will achieve that one-drive can be used for whole backup in 3-5 years ever after they will achieve that you can use not hard copy, but hard-link to files, which are stored actually in other place (this will take less HDD for store files – now they are duplicated – where they are stored + one-drive folder).
Why is OneDrive taking so long to sync with Outlook?
When you add a POP3 email account to Outlook or create archives or backup files from any of your accounts in Outlook, an Outlook Data File (.pst) may be created within your One, and drive. If this data file becomes large it can slow down your One, and drive sync.
One of the next things we wondered was why is my Outlook data file (PST) slow to sync?
Less When you add a POP3 email account to Outlook or create archives or backup files from any of your accounts in Outlook, an Outlook Data File (.pst) may be created within your One, and drive. If this data file becomes large it can slow down your One. Drive sync and may show “Processing changes” or “A file is in use”.