Tag: Thunderbird mail and profile backup
Thunderbird mail and profile backup on Ubuntu
by sahab on May.28, 2010, under Backup, RHEL5, Ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 9.10
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Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs.
In Linux Mozilla thunderbird stores your email and profile setting in a special directory called ~/.thunderbird i.e. /home/you/.thunderbird/ or ~/.thunderbird directory. All you have to do is backup this directory. |
Backup Thunderbird mail and profilebackup thunderbird mail and profile to a /backup directory
#sudo mkdir /backup
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tar zcvf /backup/email-ubuntu-181aug2009.tar.gz /home/ubuntu/.thunderbird/Restore Thunderbird mail and profileMake sure Thunderbird is not running. Simply copy backup files from USB pen or CD to your /home/you/.mozilla-thunderbird/ directory:
Or just copy all files from USB pen/CD to ~/.thunderbird/ directory. |