Toucan is a stand alone utility with more options, that lets you synchronize, back up and secure your data. Portable Apps Suite (Base Edition) includes a PortableApps Backup utility. If you're using Portable Thunderbird or Portable Firefox Mozbackup won't back up your profile because it expects to find it via the profiles.ini file, and one of the goals of portable applications is to avoid having to register and install the application on each PC. The beta doesn't seem to have that problem. Mozbackup 1.5.1 usually works fine but a few users have had problems where it doesn't backup everything it is supposed to. Use Mozbackup 1.5.2 Beta 1 (there is a download link for it in the News section) rather than the version available at the normal download link. Its recommended that you verify that you can restore a backup it creates before relying upon it. While Mozbackup is extremely popular in the forums, it's no longer maintained. Its also a very convenient way to migrate a profile to another computer (or restore a profile on a reformatted boot disk). This eliminates the need to find where your profile is stored, and it has options to back up just part of the profile. MozBackup is a profile backup utility for Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Recommended: If you're a Windows user and want a simple way to back up and restore profiles, it's recommended that you use the MozBackup program. If you're migrating from Windows to Linux see this article instead. See Transferring data to a new profile if you're trying to recover data from a profile to reuse in another profile. It has different (and more complicated) instructions because it has to tell the application where the profile is stored. If you want to move your profile to a different place on your computer (or a different computer), see Moving your profile folder. This article describes how to back up your profile and restore it. Make sure to keep the backup not on the same disk (or even computer) as your profile folder, to avoid it being lost along with the profile in case of disk failure (or theft). It's a good idea to periodically back up your profile to safeguard your data, in case something happens to your computer. The profile folder is a folder on your computer that stores your Mozilla application user data such as preference settings, passwords, extensions, themes, Firefox or SeaMonkey bookmarks, and Thunderbird or SeaMonkey mail.

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