Comments on: Mozbackup

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:49:08 +0000

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.

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Mozbackup 1.4.7 - Clunk's Forums. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:30:50 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:51:49 +0000

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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By: Sokak

Sokak — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:04:09 +0000

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)

By: Nosh

Nosh — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:35:32 +0000

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.