How do I backup Thunderbird profile - no mail-backups needed!

hello dear OpenSuse Experts,

i ’m Opensuse Linux user and I’d like to keep backup of my mail settings. How do I backup Thunderbird profile under OpenSuse-Linux distribution?

note - i do not need to backup any mail - i only need to backup the profile of my thunderbird

note: i move from openSuse 13.1 to OpenSuse Leap 42.1

look forward to hear from you

hello dear all

to backup thunderbird mail and profile to tape drive, we re able to use:

$  tar zcvf /dev/st0 /home/you/.mozilla-thunderbird/ 

To backup files to USP pen driver mounted at /media/disk, we can enter

$ cp -avr /home/you/.thunderbird/ /media/disk

if we need to backup thunderbird mail and profile to a /backup directory:

# tar zcvf /backup/email-my_name-22jan2007.tar.gz /home/my_name/.thunderbird/

well - what do i need to do if i only (!!!) want **to backup the profile…

**
love to hear from you

Well there is not a single file. So what you need is probably the files in the first level of *.default Where * is some random number. Note that mail data is also there in the mail folder but if you take just the files in the first level that should do it. Or take all but the mail and news to be sure.

or try this addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

hello dear both,
many many thanks for the reply. Great to hear from you.

I want to avoid to backup the mail at the same time - they are ++ 16 k mails. And i do not want to backup/restore them.
So i need to have a way to **do only a - profile-backup
**
i will look at the links you gave

many many thanks