30+ Popular Free and Paid Email Backup & Recovery Apps. Guide to choosing the best one easily

Buying Guide

As one of the most important communication tools, emails play an irreplaceable role in both daily life and business activities. With more and more threats to email safety, like virus attack, hardware failure, storage device damage etc., the demand for email backup and recovery is becoming more and more urgent. Then how to choose a suitable piece of Email Backup & Recovery Software?

We know most of our customers came here shopping with this question. To save your time, we have listed here the top shareware and freeware with clear classification and objective reranking, also we have collected some useful tips for manual backup/recovery. Please take a bit time to follow our guide, and you can easily reach your target software.

As the name suggests, this category contains two kinds of software, one for email backup, the other for email recovery.

Important Tips 1. If possible, please put the target data and backup data on different physical media, for example, prepare two hard drives, and one is exclusive for storing backup files.
2. Windows OS comes with a built-in Windows Backup tool, and most feedbacks are negative, but you can still have a try if you want. (How-Tos)

All the products in this category are classified into the specified sub-category. At each sub-category page,
1. We list all the best freeware
2. We list all the popular shareware
3. Freeware vs. shareware
4. We write some useful data backup tips hoping that will be helpful in your backup process

Email Backup Email Backup: backs up all email items, including email folders, contacts, calendar items, journal entries, tasks, notes, RSS feeds, settings, rules, E-mail accounts, junk e-mail lists and signatures etc. In case of data loss, these backup files will help you retrieve lost email data with ease.

Note: After you enter the sub-category page, please browse the excerpt of each product to find the one compatible with your email account/client type.

Email Recovery & Repair repairs email database files and recovers email items. If you have not yet backed up email data when data loss or database file damage happens, you can try to use Email Recovery & Repair Software to retrieve email data.

Based on your email account/client type, click into the corresponding sub-category page, and then choose the software you need.

1. Outlook
Outlook PST Recovery PST is the most common proprietary file format used by Outlook to store email items. Therefore, the vast majority of ordinary Outlook users can choose an Outlook PST Recovery product to recover Outlook email items

Invalid recovers Mac Outlook email items.

Outlook Express Recovery recovers Outlook Express email items.

Outlook OST Recovery Email items in Microsoft Exchange Server are stored in OST files.

* For the difference between PST and OST Files, please refer to Introduction to Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost)

2. Others
Exchange EDB Recovery IncrediMail Recovery Invalid MS Entourage Recovery Invalid

3. If Email Recovery & Repair Software fails to retrieve your lost email data, you can then seek help from the professional data recovery service.

All the products in this category are classified into the specified sub-category. At each sub-category page

We list all the best freeware
We list all the popular shareware
Freeware vs. shareware
We write some useful Email Backup & Recovery tips hoping that will be helpful in your backup/recovery process