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.

Lightning: Sync Calendar Events and Tasks of Oracle Beehive with Thunderbird

Lightning: Sync Calendar Events and Tasks of Oracle Beehive with Thunderbird


Thunderbird syncs only Email data with the Oracle Beehive, if you want to sync Calendar data and Tasks then one has to download the Lightning add-on from the mozilla site.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/

Lightning is the open-source project for syncing calendar events and tasks (CalDAV) based.

Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV, or CalDAV, is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling  information on a remote server.


After Lightning add-on installation, follow below Configuration steps to sync Thunderbird with Oracle Beehive Server.Separate Beehive plug-ins are not required to configure this.


Basically there are 2 ways to Sync Calendar Events.


1) With out Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird.
2) With Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird


1) With out Oracle Beehive Plug-in for Thunderbird.


1) Right Click on the Calendar (restart thunderbird after lightning add-on installation) , select New Calendar.

2) Choose on the Network check box.

3) Select Format as CalDAV and Location is the location of the calendar file on the Beehive Server for that specific user. 


https://hostname/caldav/st/home/abc.xyz@ORACLE.COM/calendars/MyCalendar

Replace hostname with the proper server name and abc.xyz is the user name of the Oracle user

4) choose some name to this Calendar,Color (to distinguish calendar events of this with other calendars(GMAIL))

5) After Completion of this configuration, calendar events and tasks will be synced to the Thunderbird from the Oracle Beehive.

All calendar events are populated successfully and color of events are in blue color.


2) With Oracle Beehive Plug-in.


1) Once the lightning add-on is downloaded and installed successfully, Download the latest oracle beehive plug-in from the following site.


http://lightning-oracle.us.oracle.com/mozilla/dist/champion/oracle-beehive-extensions-for-thunderbird-champion-latest.xpi


a) From the settings select Install-addon from the file

 All the Calendar events and tasks are reflected on the Calendar pane of thunderbird.