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MozBackup - Create a Backup of Your Mozilla Profile

How to Create a Backup of Your Mozilla Profile with MozBackup
Published by StalkeR
05-21-2011
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How to Create a Backup of Your Mozilla Profile with MozBackup

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This tutorial will show you how to create backup of your Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles using MozBackup.
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This ulility allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, passwords, cache etc. It's an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup ...

Moz Backup is free ulility for creating backups of profiles.

It's free and you can download it from the official site - Moz Backup.



So let's start. After you download and install Moz Backup,start it.

1. Click on the button and type MozBackup.

You'll see the main window of the program.
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Click Next.

2. Operation type window
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Here we can choose 2 operations: Backup a profile or Restore a Profile.
Choose Backup a profile,because we need to backup the profile.
Before we click Next button,under the Operation Chooser are listed program(s) that can be backup -ed using this tool. Select program that you need(In my case it's Mozilla Thunderbird) and click Next button.

3. Profile Selection window - Select profile here.
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I got only one profile,called "default". If you got more profiles they will be listed there. Select the profile that you want to backup,and select the location of backup file clicking the button Browse... bellow.
Click Next.

4. Pop-up window - If you want password protected profile
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If you choose Yes it will appear a window that will ask you to set a password. If you select No you won't see this two windows.
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And just click Ok.

5. Components Section window - Here select what you want to backup,and click Next.
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For a short time,you'll see this Report window that tells you that the backup is completed.
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Click Finish.

You're done! You've just created a backup of your Mozilla profile.
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05-21-2011   #1
TheReaper


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 


Nice tutorial, StalkeR.

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05-21-2011   #2
StalkeR


Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
 
 


Thanks TheReaper!
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05-21-2011   #3
Arc


windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit SP 1
 
 


A nice one , my friend !!! I must to use it
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05-21-2011   #4
Dinesh


Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 


I use Mozback every once a month. Nice tutorial.
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05-21-2011   #5
The Howling Wolves


Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
 
 


Nice job StalkeR...
Keep up the good work.
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05-21-2011   #6
StalkeR


Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
 
 


Thanks Archie,Dinesh and Dennis!
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05-21-2011   #7
noobvious


Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1, Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1
 
 


Looks good! I may just try this out.
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05-21-2011   #8
Bongo


Acer laptop W 7 Pro SP1 64 bit & Dell Desktop W 7 Pro SP1 32 bit
 
 


I have used MozBackup for 2+ years. Nice tutorial StalkeR.
Jerry
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05-21-2011   #9
StalkeR


Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
 
 


Thanks Noob and Jerry!
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