Thursday, April 17, 2008

Backing up Thunderbird

Backup Thunderbird to a backup_directory
tar zcvf /home/username/backup_dir/tbbackup.tar.gz /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird.

Restoring Thunderbird
*make sure thunderbird is not running*
tar -zxvf /home/username/tbbackup.tar.gz -C /home/username

Credit to:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-backup-thunderbird-email-profile/

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