Backing Up Mozilla Thunderbird

Sonny Jenkins · Post by **Sonny Jenkins** » 17 Oct 2009 3:37 pm

I have backed up my entire TB application, profile, emails, settings etc with a program called MozBackup. It is now located in my Documents/Setting. How can I burn that to a CD,,,and then how can I be sure I have it (I'm sure if I try to open the CD it will say it will overwrite what it already on TB,,,which I wouldn't want,,,until I'm sure I have it, so I can erase the emails that I'm saving as backups????

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 17 Oct 2009 4:44 pm

use a burning sw like Nero or Roxio, Ashampoo,etc. Launch the burning app choose either data cd/ dvd whichever you are using, clik add and that should open a browser field where u locate and point to the file you want saved, click add, u should see a list of all the files/folders you have chosen. You should use a new disk as even when left open the previous data burnt on the disk will be no longer accessable, Stormy :)formatted space on most cd-r =700MB on a DVD 5....tho it says 4.7 GB for a single layer disc u really only get about 4.38 GB. I use the term formatted space only as a descriptive tool. DO NOT format a blank cd-r or dvd-r as they are preformatted. Only format an optic disc if it is an RW disc....which is really a waste of time and $

John Cipriano · Post by **John Cipriano** » 17 Oct 2009 6:38 pm

Sometimes the burning software has a function called "verify" that will read the disc once it's burned.

Sonny Jenkins · Post by **Sonny Jenkins** » 19 Oct 2009 6:09 am

Hey guys,,,thanks for the help. I've (hopefully) got it all backed up on CD AND on a little usb drive that I had. Didn't see any way to "verify" what I had, so guess I'll just have to take my chances. Not sure how to access again if I need it anyway.

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 19 Oct 2009 7:55 am

Just put the disc/usb drive in the appropriate input device/jack ,if autorun doesn't open a pop-up asking you if you want to open disc/drive and view files, then go to "my computer" and left clik on the appropriate icon for optic drive or usb ;-)ps don't worry bout verifying data after burn as it takes bout twice as long, and any modern burn sw will tell you after the burn if it was completed successfully or if errors were encountered the burn will have been aborted by default.

this doesn't apply to usb flash drives, if the original file is corrupt then it will be corrupt on the flash drive also (just try to open any file, if it is corrupt, it won't open and u should receive an error message saying so)

Sonny Jenkins · Post by **Sonny Jenkins** » 19 Oct 2009 9:43 am

Hey thanks Storm,,,life is tough for us technologically illiterate guys!!!! I think what I should have done was to back up the profile on one disc,,,then the actual emails on another disc,,,that way I won't have to over write my profile/settings just to go back and find an old email. My purpose, other than back up Moz TB is to keep some emails for potential legal needs,,,but get them out of the program,,,archive so to speak.

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 19 Oct 2009 5:03 pm

you can always extract the various files from the data disk(s) at any time to rearrange them into diff folders , whatever. Just open the disc/flash drive and drag and drop the file or folder back to the pc desktop or where ever u want. ;-)ole" works well on optic data discs in Win7 in particular.Unless the optic disk was used as ram disk u may have trouble draggin and droppin from a disc in earlier os ...XP?....ps: Winrar is this best archiver decompressor, etc. out there.