Scheduled Backup of Mails in Linux

Majority Linux Users are using Thunderbird Mail Client. now if they need to take auto scheduled back up of mails just need to write the below script and set a cron job for that.

#!/bin/sh
## Script to backup Thunderbird email
## Backup needs a date (stamp)

set -x
x=`date +%d%m%y.%H%M`

## Save space by making sure backup is archived
tar zcf thunderb-mail-${x}.tgz /home/user directory/.thunderbird

## Save the compressed backup to mybackup folder
cp thunderb-mail-${x}.tgz /path to store your backup

## Clean up after, we don't need two copies of the backup
sudo rm ~/thunderb-mail-${x}.tgz

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