Outlook has an add-in provided by Microsoft that is an optional download
from their Office site that you have to manually invoke to create a backup.
No automatic backup is ever created - even running scanpst.exe gives you the
option to create a backup but it is not automatic.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, A.Translator asked:

| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] schreef op 7-1-2006
|| What created the Outlook backup file? I would look in that
|| program's folder to start
|
| I haven't got a clue.
| From my search on the Internet about the subject, I may have drawn
| the wrong conclusions. I thought outlook always made a backup file
|
| I stand corrected.