Back up mail

Hi all, i would like to back up my mail on a external hardrive, should I use the export mailbox command in the mailbox drop down, what I don't want to do is remove what I already have, as saidim just keen to create a back up of my mail, can you help?
Alex

And it will not remove what I already have got? It will create a copy?
Al

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