Mozbackup
Rating: 5
Description: Mozbackup will backup and restore Mozilla, Thunderbird, and Firefox profiles, including email, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, address books, and other details. It will also back-up and restore installed extensions for both Firefox and Thunderbird.
I don’t know about you, but as far as I am concerned the most annoying thing about re-installing Windows (or getting a new computer) is backing up and transferring email if you use a local client. If you use Thunderbird, however, Mozbackup provides a quick and easy solution for backing up your email as well as your Firefox bookmarks and saved passwords.
I used Mozbackup to backup and transfer my 1.5 gigs worth of email to my new laptop; here are some notes:
- Backup: Please note that my first attempt at a backup only partially transferred my email, leaving out the last 6 months worth or so. Not sure why this may have happened, but I went back and compressed all of my folders before creating another backup. This time it worked perfectly.
- Options: When creating a backup file you can choose exactly what it is that you want backed-up. You can choose whether you want a password protected backup file, whether you want passwords saved, address books, cookies, certificates, downloaded files list, etc.. You could also backup any extensions (as in plugins) that you have installed for either Thunderbird or Firefox, although this may not work in all cases (worked just fine for the extensions I had).
- Interface: Mozbackup has a user-friendly wizard interface, making the backup and restore process simple and easy.
- Compression: My 1.5 gigs of email (i.e. the size of the email folder in application data) was backed up to a little more than 400 megs. The size of the backup file was approximately the same when I backed up uncompressed as well as compressed email folders.
- Programs supported: Compatible with: Firefox 1.0 - 2.0, Thunderbird 1.0 - 2.0, SeaMonkey 1.0a - 1.1, Mozilla Suite 1.7 - 1.7.x , Netscape 7.x.
Not much more to say about this title, except that the next version (to be released sometime in Q2, 2007) will be completely re-written from scratch and will also feature support for Sunbird and Flock. Most notably, it will feature automatic backups from the command line, which would enable automating Thunderbird backups through scripts.
If you use Thunderbird then you need Mozbackup; it is an excellent way to back-up your email. However, just to be safe, make sure to compress your files before you start the backing-up process.
Compatibility: WinAll.
Go to the download page to get the latest version (approx 876K). Also visit the program home page.
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I’m glad they’re finally adding support for automation. Backing up Firefox as of now is simply a matter of backing up the user profile folder which I’m doing via my default backup app (Genie). There’s just one click involved so it’s great for practical day-to-day use.
Mozbackup is a good piece of software indeed, but…
I think that manual backup is still a better way to have effective and fail safe backups of your profiles.
The main reason is that if your profile is corrupted, and you not notice that immediately, when you restore it, you’ll obtain only a pile of corrupted junk in the best case.
Backing up manually, and immediately re-check your backup by injecting it in a brand new profile is the only solution by the way.
If Mozbackup will implement those kind of safety check-up, it will be for sure a nearby fail-safe way to make your backups…
But your mail and your bookmarks worth surely a little bit of handwork and an accurate manual check-up, safety first.
(sorry for my p00r engrish)
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In your initial comments here about Thunderbird email backup you say “but I went back and compressed all of my folders before creating another backup.”
What you *actually* mean - and believe me it is important since they are two different processes - is that you *compacted* all folders.
To compress is to reduce in size, to compact is to make permanent changes made on that folder (deletion, movement etc). It is a failure to compact all folders prior to back up that causes the problem and nothing to do with compression.
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I’m trying to use MozBackup to backup my emails from a portable Thunderbird application on my USB key. When presented with the backup options there are lots of checkboxes, but only one is “live” - back up General Settings. I really want the second checkbox - back up Email! Is this to make me buy a license? I thought it was freeware. Confused.