Re: [Evolution] Backing up.

[David Garnier <david garnier nospam trusted-logic com>]

At 09:00 08/03/2004 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 01:08, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote:
>
> > I would be doing both.
> > To an FAT32 drive I share with XP-Pro and burning a to a CD-ROM
>
> Okay, if you are backing up to a FAT32 drive then just follow the steps
> below. (I am assuming your FAT32 drive/partition is mounted somewhere on
> your system. Just replace "/path/to/your/backup/mountpoint" with the
> actual mountpoint of your FAT32 drive/partition.
>
> To back up to a CD-R(W), do this. First, as root, do this:

Hi,

Even if I agree that the command-line is a very good interface for lots of 
things, I think that burning a CD is not one of them, especially for a new 
Linux user.
I have successfully used xcdroast (steep learning curve) and k3b (much 
easier, looks just like EasyCD-Creator) to backup my evolution directory. 
Also, I try to avoid compressing my backups. If something happen to the 
physical media holding a compressed archive, I'm completely toast. With a 
uncompressed archive I will be able to recover most of the file. Still, tar 
may be useful to wrap everything in a single file because you may have 
problems with the long file names used by Evolution.

So Kelley, the gist is :

To pack your Evolution folder into a .tar file (uncompressed) archive:
tar -cvf evolution.tar ~/evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution

If you really need compression, created a Bzip2 archive with:
tar -cjvf evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution

Then simply burn the file or the folder using your prefered CD burning 
software.

To restore from an uncompressed folder:
tar -xvf /mountpoint/of/cd/evolution.tar

To restore from a compressed folder:
tar -xjvf /mountpoint/of/cd/evolution.tar.bz2


Best Regards,
David Garnier