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http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com/post/2008/02/12/how-do-i-back...

Submitted by HugoR 47 months, 1 week, 6 days, 12 hours ago

Mozilla thunderbird stores your email and profile setting in a special directory called ~/.mozilla-thunderbird i.e. /home/you/.mozilla-thunderbird/ All you have to do is backup this directory. Task: Backup Thunderbird mail and profile You need to backup thunderbird mail and profile to tape drive, use: # tar zcvf /dev/st0 /home/you/.mozilla-thunderbird/

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