[opensuse] Thunderbird - where local folders & mail info stored
Good evening, opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer. Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup. Thanks Johan Sch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 20:45 +0200, Johan wrote:
Good evening,
opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer.
Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup.
~/.thunderbird/RANDOMNAME.default/Mail/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuKw0sACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XhBACfbunY7uwQ30yi2JBOhqVRHMkv eYsAn0OSGdC6r1P+1HhJP6emhKJbdwGN =4bA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 28 Feb 2010 19:25:57 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 20:45 +0200, Johan wrote:
Good evening,
opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer.
Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup.
~/.thunderbird/RANDOMNAME.default/Mail/
My rsync isn't allowed to copy that folder. Could you tell me what permissions you have for it and its children, please? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 23:00 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
On Sunday 28 Feb 2010 19:25:57 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 20:45 +0200, Johan wrote:
Good evening,
opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer.
Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup.
~/.thunderbird/RANDOMNAME.default/Mail/
My rsync isn't allowed to copy that folder. Could you tell me what permissions you have for it and its children, please?
That's not possible. If rsync is not allowed, it is because rsync is not running as the owner of the files. Check it. Or run it as root. My guess is that you are making a backup to a different user (different uid). That will not do, you will have to change the ownership. Either you do it as root, or use tricks. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuLBPAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UESwCfSVJ5BBRV4X88M1X+k8vckZp1 zAwAn19IOiyv8KOI+MKuFdAbGse5cOqG =YkIq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 01 Mar 2010 00:06:04 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 23:00 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
On Sunday 28 Feb 2010 19:25:57 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 20:45 +0200, Johan wrote:
Good evening,
opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer.
Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup.
~/.thunderbird/RANDOMNAME.default/Mail/
My rsync isn't allowed to copy that folder. Could you tell me what permissions you have for it and its children, please?
That's not possible. If rsync is not allowed, it is because rsync is not running as the owner of the files. Check it. Or run it as root.
My guess is that you are making a backup to a different user (different uid). That will not do, you will have to change the ownership. Either you do it as root, or use tricks.
Yes, that's what I thought. The thunderbird/Mail is on my wife's laptop (which I've just converted from Windows to openSUSE ;) ). The backup is an rsnapshot instance running as root on my desktop, and backing up her data across the LAN to my machine. All her documents come over without a problem, but I get 'Permission denied' messages on a lot of her ~/.folders (hidden folders, if you missed the dot), including some of the thunderbird subfolders. The permissions on these folders are drwx------, and I thought that giving the group read permissions might be what was needed. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-03-01 at 09:20 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Yes, that's what I thought. The thunderbird/Mail is on my wife's laptop (which I've just converted from Windows to openSUSE ;) ). The backup is an rsnapshot instance running as root on my desktop, and backing up her data across the LAN to my machine. All her documents come over without a problem, but I get 'Permission denied' messages on a lot of her ~/.folders (hidden folders, if you missed the dot), including some of the thunderbird subfolders.
The permissions on these folders are drwx------, and I thought that giving the group read permissions might be what was needed.
No, you need to chown all the files you restored as the user she will run as. Something like: find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chown USERNAME:users '{}' \; find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chmod u+r+w,g+r-w,o-r-w '{}' \; find /home/USERNAME/ -type d -exec chmod u+x+r+x,g+r+x '{}' \; mutandis mutandi :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuMV80ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VnegCePOnuqEMtQcSmtHx5G+KV+e+H 6z4Ani6VHlvTWriV6mPr0LI5RW+rifGQ =eSLJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 00:11:54 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2010-03-01 at 09:20 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Yes, that's what I thought. The thunderbird/Mail is on my wife's laptop (which I've just converted from Windows to openSUSE ;) ). The backup is an rsnapshot instance running as root on my desktop, and backing up her data across the LAN to my machine. All her documents come over without a problem, but I get 'Permission denied' messages on a lot of her ~/.folders (hidden folders, if you missed the dot), including some of the thunderbird subfolders.
The permissions on these folders are drwx------, and I thought that giving the group read permissions might be what was needed.
No, you need to chown all the files you restored as the user she will run as.
Something like:
find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chown USERNAME:users '{}' \;
find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chmod u+r+w,g+r-w,o-r-w '{}' \; find /home/USERNAME/ -type d -exec chmod u+x+r+x,g+r+x '{}' \;
mutandis mutandi :-)
Many thanks, Carlos I've got working now, without having to chown. It seemed to improve after an exchange of ssh keys between her account on this (my desktop, the backup) machine and her user on her laptop. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thanks. Yes a hidden file. Joha sCH On 02/28/2010 09:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Sunday, 2010-02-28 at 20:45 +0200, Johan wrote:
Good evening,
opensuse 11.2 - Gnome - Thunderbird mailer.
Kindly please where does thunderbird store its local folders and mail info. I would like to save that to another drive for backup.
~/.thunderbird/RANDOMNAME.default/Mail/
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)
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