How to Backup/Restore Oracle Beehive Email,Calendar Data - Part II ( Using ThunderBird )

How to Backup/Restore Oracle Beehive Email,Calendar Data  - Part II           ( Using ThunderBird )

In my previous article i demonstrated step-by-step process in backing up and restoring Oracle Beehive data( Email,Calendar,Contacts)  using Microsoft Outlook 2007 , In this blog i am demonstrating step-by-step process for ThunderBird Client.

There are 2 ways to backup/restore Oracle Beehive data using ThunderBird

1) Using ImportExportTools Add-on

This is a add-on to Mozilla Thunderbird, 

a) Install Add-on 

In Mozilla Thunderbird .. Tools -> Add-ons 

search for ImportExportTools Add-on then download and install .

After Installation 

Tools --> ImportExportTools 

Export : 

Choose on of the option

Export all the folders / Export all the folders with structure .. 

then select a folder to which all this folders will be exported.

you can also select a single folder (Inbox) instead of all folders 

Email Messages can be exported in multiple formats

EML / HTML ...etc , then select the folder to which this mails to be exported.

Above image represents the mails exported in EML format.

IMPORT :

select Tools --> ImportExportTools 

then select one of the option, import messages / import mbox / import all messages from a directory.

select import all messages from a directory --> also its subdirectories

select the location of the folder (backup) where you exported your mails .

then thunderbird imports all the EML messages to inbox of the thunderbird.

At the bottom of thunderbird you can check the status of import ...

2) Copy Thunderbird profile folder 

Export:

a) stop thunderbird

b) go to mozilla profile directory (C:\Users\rjuluri\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\drkctipd.default)

c) copy Mail, ImapMail, calendar-data folder on to a external disk

this folder consists of INBOX.msf , Sent.msf .. all the mails are stored as a single msf file

Import :

a) stop thunderbird on the machine to which you want to import

b) from external disk copy INBOX.msf , Sent.msf to the mozilla profile directory of the another machine to which you want to copy

c) start Mozilla thunderbird .. all the archived mails will be displayed.