3 Easy Ways: How to Backup Outlook Emails to OneDrive

• Can You Save Outlook Emails to OneDrive?
• How to Backup Outlook Emails to OneDrive via MultCloud [Automatically]
• How to Backup Outlook Emails to OneDrive via Outlook Solutions [Manually]
  ►Way 1: By Outlook Export Wizard
  ►Way 1: By Outlook Print
• Conclusion
• FAQs

Can You Save Outlook Emails to OneDrive?

"How do I backup Outlook emails to OneDrive? I've attempted various instructions I came across, but none seem to do the trick. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!"

If you don't want to backup Outlook emails as PST files, you can move an Outlook email to OneDrive as PDF files by Outlook Print or the free third-party service MultCloud. The first way requires you to transfer emails one by one. However, the second way is more automatic which allows you to schedule the task and supports transferring emails up to 200 emails at the same time. You can learn the specific steps in the following parts.

In this part, let’s see why we choose to backup emails from Outlook to OneDrive.

How to Backup Outlook Emails to OneDrive via MultCloud [Automatically]

You may not only just want to backup emails from Outlook to OneDrive but have more requirements for this task. In this regard, using MultCloud is the best choice. MultCloud allows you to add your cloud drives and email clients to it for centralization and gives its professional solution to email-to-cloud migration as Email Migration. Your requirements such as automatic backup task, selected email backup, converting emails into PDFs, and backing up emails from a browser can be met with Email Migration's various features:

Save Outlook Emails to OneDrive by Email Migration

Step 1: Enter the MultCloud website and get started with a new account.

Step 2: Click “Add Cloud” and choose OneDrive among the cloud icons. Then log in to your OneDrive account. Also, click “Add Email”, choose Outlook, and log in to the Outlook account. After that, your OneDrive and Outlook are connected to MultCloud.

Step 3: Select “Email Migration” and choose Outlook and OneDrive in the boxes. Finally, tap on the “Migrate Now” button to initiate the task.

Bonus Tip: How to Backup Outlook Emails to Hard Drive

Except for Email Migration, MultCloud offers another email solution called Email Download which is used to batch-download emails to a local place or your external hard drive as PDF files. Like Email Migration, Email Download also supports downloading emails with or without attachments. Also, you can download up to 200 emails at the same time if you are a premium user. Before the Email Download steps, you are recommended to change the downloading destination to your hard drive in the browser settings so that the emails can be saved to it directly.

Step 1: Add Outlook to MultCloud.

Step 2: Open Outlook on MultCloud by clicking its icon in the left sidebar.

Step 3: Choose the emails you want to backup and right-click on the emails to choose "Download" in the dropdown menu (or choose "Download" in the upper taskbar).

Step 4: Check the downloading settings and click "OK". Then, the emails will be saved to the hard drive as PDFs.

How to Backup Outlook Emails to OneDrive via Outlook Solutions [Manually]

There are 2 official solutions on how to archive Outlook emails to OneDrive. You can use the Outlook Export Wizard or the Print feature to download the emails to the local drive and then upload them to OneDrive. Compared to the automatic MultCloud way, these 2 ways will cost more time and take up your local storage. However, if you mind using the third-party service, they can still help you.

Way 1: By Outlook Export Wizard

Step 1: Open the Outlook app and click "File" in the upper-left corner.

Step 2: Choose "Open & Export" in the left sidebar and then click "Import/Export".

Step 3: Choose "Export to a file" as the action to perform and click "Next".

Step 4: Choose to create a file as "Outlook Data File (.pst)" and click "Next".

Step 5: Select the email folder you want to export and click "Next".

Step 6: Tap the "Browse..." tab to choose where to save the emails and check the options below. Then, press "Finish" to start exporting Outlook emails.

Step 7: Go to the OneDrive website and upload the exported emails to OneDrive. Or, if you have the OneDrive desktop app, you can choose it as the downloading destination and directly save Outlook emails to OneDrive in the former step.

Way 2: By Outlook Print

Step 1: Enter the Outlook website and log in to your account.

Step 2: Select the email that you want to transfer and click "Print" in the upper taskbar. Then, confirm to "Print" on the email overview page.

Step 3: When you come to the print preview pop-up window, choose "Microsoft Print to PDF" in "Destination" and check the print settings. After all the settings, click "Print" in the lower-right corner and soon you can see an email appearing in a local place as a PDF file.

Step 4: Upload the email to OneDrive. If you have many emails to be backed up to OneDrive, this step can be done after you convert all the emails.

Conclusion

Looking through the whole post, you must know how to backup Outlook emails to OneDrive via MultCloud or Outlook Print. You can choose a preferred way and backup with ease. But if the number of emails that need to be transferred as PDFs is quite a lot, MultCloud Email Migration will be better since it allows you to move up to 200 emails at the same time if you get a premium plan.

Besides, you may try other MultCloud functions to solve your daily cloud problems like using Cloud Sync to sync OneDrive with Google Drive. This function will be quite helpful if you want to share OneDrive files with Google Drive users.

FAQs

How do I backup all Outlook emails?

You can use the MultCloud Email Migration to backup your Outlook emails to the cloud or the Email Download/Outlook Export Wizard to backup them to a local drive. However, if you have too many emails, you might run the task for times to backup all the emails.

How do I sync Outlook to OneDrive?

MultCloud Email Migration supports auto-starting your task at a fixed frequency daily/weekly/monthly. You can set a preferred time in "Schedule" and when the time arrives, the Outlook emails will be automatically transferred to OneDrive.

How do I backup my Outlook PST file to OneDrive?

After exporting your Outlook emails by Outlook Export Wizard, you can manually upload them to OneDrive on the OneDrive website. Or, if you have the OneDrive desktop app, you can drag the files and drop them into the OneDrive folder.