Re: [Evolution] Evolution not listening to quit

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 13:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Personally, I don't back up Evolution explicitly. I do back up my home
> > directory every night (using rsnapshot) but this almost always happens
> > while my session is logged in. I have been doing this for years and
> > have never lost an email. I probably also helps that my accounts are
> > IMAP-based, so what's in the local Evolution store is mostly cached
> > information.
> >
> > So it's not clear to me that stopping Evo during a backup is actually
> > necessary.
>
> Even if you would use POP accounts and Evolution would automatically
> download messages during the backup, it shouldn't matter.

Yes, I would expect that. My question is whether all of Evo's database
operations are transactional, though I'm supposing they are.

In which case I think the argument about how to make sure Evo is
stopped before doing a backup is pointless. Just don't stop it.

poc