Re: [Evolution] backing up ~/evolution

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:34, Mertens Bram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to write a little script to backup ~/evolution.
> I currently tar and compress the entire directory and the resulting
> files are about 35MB in size.
>
> What files can safely be skipped and will result in a considerable
> reduction of size?
>
> All mail-folders contain the following files:
> folder-metadata.xml
> local-metadata.xml
> mbox

You only need the above files, the ones below are generated from the
contents of the mbox file if they are missing/out of sync.

> mbox.ev-summary
> mbox.ibex.index
> mbox.ibex.index.data
>
> I suppose the .xml files are important since they appear to specify the
> type of folder. (anyway they're too small too influence the size
> considerably)
> But do I need any other files than the mbox file?
>
> TIA
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