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[Antony]

Backing up Mozilla Firefox profile data has never been easier

This Firefox Backup ‘QuickPick’ will help you making backups of Firefox bookmarks and settings. You can use this Firefox Backup ‘QuickPick’ to schedule backup frequent or even manually, and a variety of destinations for you to choose from. This Firefox Backup ‘QuickPick’ allows you to create full backup or incremental backups for saving time and space.

Download Firefox Backup ‘QuickPick’ installer and follow this simple instruction.

For more information, please see Firefox Backup ‘QuickPick’ page.

You will need Backup.app (from .Mac) to use this 'QuickPick', .Mac membership is required to activate Backup.app for the first time (free trial membership will work). You don't need .Mac membership to use continue using Backup.app.

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[DJGM]

And how about pointing out that this is for Mac OS X only?!?


Believe it or not, as much as you wish otherwise, not everyone uses Mac OS X !

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[Don_HH2K]

And how about pointing out that this is for Mac OS X only?!?


Believe it or not, as much as you wish otherwise, not everyone uses Mac OS X !

I have a similar utility for Windows available here, which is compatible with Mozilla, Seamonkey, Donzilla, Netscape, and Firefox, and will run on 95 and higher. Unlike Antony's version, it doesn't have any built-in scheduling, but it's schedule-ready: you can set up a Task Scheduler task (98 or higher) to execute profilebackup.bat at whatever interval you choose, since no user intervention is required.

The only instructions for use are to extract all the files to a directory, run [tt]profilebackup.bat[/tt] to back up a profile, and run [tt]profilerestore.bat[/tt] to restore it. The script will save any and all information under Application Data\Mozilla to a .tar.gz archive.

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[Antony]

Believe it or not, as much as you wish otherwise, not everyone uses Mac OS X !

I am well aware of that.

With the Backup ‘QuickPick’, you can create Full Backup and/or Incremental Backups, which means you can simply rollback to a previous date. Latest backup may not always be the best or the desired one.

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[Don_HH2K]

With the Backup ‘QuickPick’, you can create Full Backup and/or Incremental Backups, which means you can simply rollback to a previous date. Latest backup may not always be the best or the desired one.

Windows has come with a backup utility since Windows NT, not to mention that it's supported incremental backups since then as well. If you have the Windows Backup utility install, just make incremental backups of your Application Data\Mozilla folder for an incremental effect.

In NT/2000/XP you can script the process using the [tt]ntbackup[/tt] command:

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ntbackup backup "%APPDATA%\Mozilla" /j "Mozilla Profile Backup" /f ".\backup.bkf" /m incremental

...which will append your profile on an incremental basis to [tt]backup.bkf[/tt] in the current folder whenever you run it. You can also load it into Task Scheduler and have it run automatically.

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[Antony]

Backup utility included in Windows can be launched from
Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup

You don't need to use the ugly command lines.

Simply select
[tt]C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox[/tt] as the source, and you will be able to make a more portable Backup file.

To my knowledge, in order to make Incremental backups with Windows Backup utility, all backups must be in the same file. This is unlike .Mac's Backup utility.

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[Don_HH2K]

It's utlimately a matter of personal preference whether to use a UI or a command-line. I prefer using the command line backup system, since I find it to be more convenient, and furthermore, I can schedule it to run. For the most part, I prefer using command-line apps to their bloated UI-based counterparts anyway: [tt]tar -xvzf (filename)[/tt] is a whole lot easier than opening up WinRAR and navigating through a few dialogs.

The command I gave above will still start the UI and proceed from there; the nice thing is that I can just tell it what to do outright instead of having to click through a ton of menus.

Incremental backups do not have to be in the same file. You can select to make a master copy, and then dump the changed incremental backups into different files

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[Antony]

[tt]tar -xvzf (filename)[/tt] is a whole lot easier than opening up WinRAR and navigating through a few dialogs.

When did Windows start to include [tt]tar[/tt] utility?

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[Don_HH2K]

It doesn't. I'm just saying that command-line [tt]tar[/tt] seems eons easier to use than WinRAR or another TAR-enabled GUI-based opener.

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