Thunderbird mail and profile backup on Ubuntu

by sahab on May.28, 2010, under Backup, RHEL5, Ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 9.10

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 profile

backup thunderbird mail and profile to a /backup directory

#sudo mkdir /backup

#tar zcvf /backup/email-ubuntu-181aug2009.tar.gz /home/ubuntu/.thunderbird/

Restore Thunderbird mail and profile

Make sure Thunderbird is not running. Simply copy backup files from USB pen or CD to your /home/you/.mozilla-thunderbird/ directory:

$ tar –zxvf /backup/email-ubuntu-181aug2009.tar.gz-C /home/ubuntu

Or just copy all files from USB pen/CD to ~/.thunderbird/ directory.

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2 Comments for this entry

eileenm
June 22nd, 2011 on 9:04 pm
Great post, I admire the writing style
LUCA
November 8th, 2011 on 3:25 pm
ok.
and what about if I have to move my email backup from Thunderbird under Ubuntu, to Thunderbird under Windows 7?