[FSUG-Bangalore] How to backup Thunderbird on Ubuntu?

[Raghu]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Sudheer Satyanarayana <
sudheer.s at sudheer.net> wrote:

> On 07/20/2010 10:56 AM, Raghu wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm currently using Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) on my laptop, and my
>> emails are on Thunderbird (version 2.0). Can someone please tell me how I
>> can take a back up of Thunderbird? I have two email accounts set up on it.
>>
>>
> Close Thunderbird and run the command
>
> tar -czvf backup.tar.gz ~/.thunderbird
>

Thank you Sudheer and Sankarsan. Was able to do it.



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Thanks,
Raghu
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