Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
I still use it on 2.53 and 2.54. I do not see why it would not work,
all is does is take you profile and zip and compress is in to a single
file. It does allow you to decide want you want to backup or restore.
I guess you could just use a WinZip program although not as quick and easy.
If that is all it does then you have to ask yourself the question: Why
did the developer abandon it citing "too many Firefox releases"?
Some may depend on how you try to use it. If you're doing complete
backup and restore, you might be OK.
All we know for sure about reasons for abandonment is what is listed on
the developer's page.
I can speculate that the issues being caused by Mozilla's Rapid Release
scheduling is frequent changes to data files being used by individual
components, and where it was becoming increasingly difficult to do a
partial data restore from a backup, without risking loss of data.
I believe that work on MozBackup stopped sometime around Firefox 50
(give or take a couple of versions), but before changes happened around
Firefox 54 that ended up killing backward compatibility of profiles, and
both Thunderbird and Seamonkey are now doing that, as well.
(Recently, I've discovered that Thunderbird does allow a downgrade,
where you can do a one-time launch from command with a command switch,
-allow-downgrade or something similar.)
As noted, if you're backing up a full profile, and all that is happening
is that the data is being copied into a .ZIP, and a recovery is merely
extracting from the .ZIP for the same version of Seamonkey, you still
may be safe. But don't try to do a partial recovery, of something like
just your saved passwords or your bookmarks.
If you're just trying to get copies of your full profile, it's just as
easy to copy %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey to another location, or use a
tool like 7-Zip or PeaZip to put it into a compressed archive.
Smith
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