How to Backup Thunderbird and Firefox with MozBackup
To backup Thunderbird, u can try MozBackup. Mozbackup help you to backup Thunderbird. Besides, backup Thunderbird, It also allows you to backup Firefox bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. (Download link located at the end of the post)
Just a quick tutorial, to backup Thunderbird, follow the steps below:-
- Start your MozBackup and click Next
- Select Backup a profile and highlight Mozilla Thunderbird and Click Next
- Highlight your profile (normally is default)
- Select the location where your backup files should store (by default it will save in My Document) and Click Next
- It will prompt your if you want to password protect your backup file. Click yes if you want.
- Then select the thing that you want to backup (ex: Email, address books, extensions, saved password, etc …) and click Next
- click Next and it will start to backup your Thunderbird
- Once finish, click on Finish and you are done!
Note: When you want to backup Thunderbird, please make sure all your Thunderbird is closed. Or else MozBackup will not work.
Here are some MozBackup Screen shot:-
*When u start MozBackup you will see this welcome screen
* Select your action (backup thunderbird or firefox)
* select the profile you want to backup and choose your backup file destination
* select what Thunderbird item you want to backup
I’ve been using MozBackup to backup Thunderbird for more than 1 year. Till now everything run smooth and stable. I’m able to restore my Thunderbird email anything with just few clicks away. Hope you like it 
Go to MozBackup Homepage
Go to MozBackup download page
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January 8th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Wow , this will save me a lot of headaches!!
January 31st, 2007 at 3:10 am
Backup performed OK, but in .pcv-format. How do I open this format?
January 31st, 2007 at 11:43 am
olle mattsson: you have to use mozbackup to do the restoration. Start MozBackup, at the second screen choose Restore a profile and you can restore your pcv file
February 6th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Can Mozbackup be used to transfer email and setting s to another copy of Thunderbird or Firefox on another computer?
Also I use both Thunderbird and Firefox for U3 on two USB thumb drives can I use Mozbackup to keep them the same?
February 6th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Greg: you can use Mozbackup to backup n trasfer those email to another PC. For USB version i’m not really sure. I havent tried that before, if you tried do let me know the result. I’d like share with the others
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Hi,
The pcv file is actually a zip file and can be opened with standard zip programs…..
October 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
A shame that it wont work.
Making a backup is oke, but putting it back gives a error “no original backup file”.
Its a joke.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
hi J karel,
do u select the correct file for restore?
i’ve restored more than 200 PCs, so far didnt encounter any problem.