Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly
Yuwen Dai wrote:
> I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
> Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the
> backup quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion?
How about creating a new folder, e.g., Inbox-2005. Then move all mails
to be backed up into this folder. Archive this folder with soumething like
tar czf Inbox-2005.tgz ./.thunderbird/.../Inbox-2005*
(The three dots "..." have to be replaced by the exact path)
Afterwards this folder can be removed. In case you need it back, just
stop thunderbird, un-tar the backup archive file, and restart
thunderbird again.
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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