Free of Backing up the dreaded Outlook PST File

When Polarverse switched to Google Apps for Business at the beginning of 2010 the appeal was we could continue to use outlook and not worry about the need to backup PST files anymore (the PST file contains all your settings and email history for Outlook).  Shortly after making the switch we started to use the web client more and more often; especially since it has the unique feature of having an "offline" copy and by last summer we stopped using Outlook all together.  This gave us so much more freedom for now any and every computer we log into, no matter where we are, is the same as it was when we logged in at the last computer.  Nothing ever out of sync - email, calendar and contacts always up to date!

When we made the original switch we only migrated over the current PST file from outlook and didn't bring over our previous years' archives.  Every once in a while we would need to fire up Outlook to find something from the old PSTs.  But what if something happened to those old PST files?  What if the backup was no good?  What about the space they are taking up in my backups which I pay for by the GB?  It occured to us that this was a silly way of doing things since in Gmail we have 25 GB of space available and were only using 1 GB for current; and our historic PST files equaled 4 GB.  Using the Googles migration tool we copied everything from the old PST files up to Gmail and now we can index/search everything in one place and today bit the bullet and deleted the old PST files!
Ah freedom!!!!!!!!

If you'd like to know more about Google Apps contact us or visit our site: http://www.polarverse.com/gapps/