Backup Thunderbird email

(1) Find the profile Thunderbird folderThey are located in different places for different versions of Windows and they may be assigned random file names that make them difficult to recognize.
On Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista machines the location for your Thunderbird profile is:

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\\
On Windows 9x/Me PCs it can usually be found at:C:\Windows\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\\

If you can't locate your profiles then check out this document for more information:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

(2) Copy the Thunderbird profile folder - Done!To back these up just copy the profiles to another location, drive, CD or USB stick. It's as simple as that! You can do it manually but you cab also use Windows Scheduler to do the job automatically with a batch file (for experts).