I'm making some kind of back-up error

I need to back up my mail regularly. I've been doing that by making a mart burn folder and dragging the mail folder from the library of my home folder to it. I've also been dragging that Mail folder to outboard drives. It seems like that's not working when I want to import mailboxes back into my Mail app, because, even though (in Mail) I go to file..import mailboxes, then try both import for Mac OSX and also trying "other", I select the location and choose the folder that contains the files (Mail) I always get the same message which is no valid files were found! What the heck. I've tried option-dragging, plain dragging, dragging to the desk top, and I always get the same message that there's nothing to import. What am I doing wrong??
I've noticed that the suffix of the individual messages in the mailboxes is .emix, and those of the mail folders themselves are .imappmbox.
I really would like to know the right way to back up my mail so I can restore it in an emergency. The section called Backing up your email in the Mail help section isn't explaining it to me. I have no POP accounts I use, only the IMAP one from .Mac.

I don’t know what is a “mart burn folder”, but it should be no surprise that you have problems importing .imapmbox mailboxes — they correspond to mailboxes stored on the server, and hence, may or may not contain a local copy of the messages in a format that Mail may or may not be able to import the way it can import locally stored .mbox mailboxes...
It happens that, if Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments (the default setting), then Mail 2.x caches server-stored mailboxes using the exact same format it uses for locally stored mailboxes, except the suffix of the mailbox folder in the filesystem is .imapmbox instead of .mbox.
Hence, if Keep copies of messages for offline viewing was set to All messages and their attachments throughout the lifetime of the mailboxes (or since before the last rebuild), .imapmbox mailboxes can be imported back into Mail as if they were locally stored mailboxes by just renaming them so that the suffix is .mbox instead of .imapmbox — note that this wasn’t possible in Mail 1.x; that version used entirely different formats for .mbox and .imapmbox mailboxes.
Note also that, after doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Mail for Mac OS X, Mail wants you to select the folder that contains the mailboxes to be imported (i.e. the folder where the .mbox folders to be imported reside), not the .mbox folders themselves nor the Messages folders within them. If you select the wrong folder, Mail says “No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found” because it cannot find any .mbox folders within the folder you’re selecting.

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