Backup
1. Please check your Thunderbird profile directory by this command.
| $ ls -la * | grep .mozilla-thunderbird -rw-r–r– 1 sketkeaw sketkeaw 32053404 2008-05-30 10:59 mozilla-thunderbird.tgz |
2. Start backup
| $ cd ~ $ tar cvfz mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz .mozilla-thunderbird |
** YYYYMMDD such as 20080525 (2008 May, 28th)
3. Backup completed !!!.
Restore
1. Install Thunderbird mail client .
2. Extract your backup data.
| $ cd ~ $ tar xvfz mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz |
3. Restoration complete !!!.

