tbird with enigmail & kpgp in the upgrade process from 12.2 to 3

hello dear friends

i am running opensuse 12.2 on a lappy.

now i want to upgrade.

note; i have some important things on the lappy.

Thunderbird enigmail with kpgp

  • approx 10 GBite E-mails.

well do i need to do someting special in order to make all upgrade processes safe.
note i do not want to loose the mails or the passwords or something elese

qestion: how to safe all the data

is there a special way to safe tbird (with enigmail ) in a single step!?

And after this was done: how to upgrade opensuse 12.2 to 12.3

online with zypper dub
or offline with the dvd - note i allready have one

love to hear

On 2013-05-22 11:56, dilbertone wrote:

> well do i need to do someting special in order to make all upgrade
> processes safe.

Make a good backup on another media, and verify it.

> note i do not want to loose the mails or the passwords or something
> elese
>
>
> qestion: how to safe all the data
>
> is there a special way to safe tbird (with enigmail ) in a single
> step!?

If you only need to keep thunderbird emails and things, you have to
backup the entire directory “½/.thunderbird/”.

How exactly to do that depends on what media you have available.

For example, if you use a usb stick formatted as FAT, then first you
need to archive the directory using something like tar, or a GUI like
Q7Z, ark, fileroller… If your destination is a Linux filesystem, you
can use, for instance, rsync (CLI), luckybackup, etc.

> And after this was done: how to upgrade opensuse 12.2 to 12.3
>
>
> online with zypper dub
> or offline with the dvd - note i allready have one

It is your choice, whatever you are more comfortable with. I use the
offline method.

Read docs first:

Online upgrade
method
Offline
upgrade method

Chapter 16. Upgrading the System and System Changes


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

hello Robin

many many thanks
i do as advices

greetings to the lovely Spain
ps was in Gibraltar & Algeciras last year -
so great