Re: [Evolution] Mail folder file locations

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 13:24, Lars Weissflog wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:10, Ian Duff wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been covered before, I've just spent a fruitless hour
> > combing the FAQs and archives looking for help.
> >
> > I'm curious which files I should back up to retain mail
> > messages/folders/filters, calendar, and contacts. All on a RH9/Evolution
> > 1.2 system.
>
> For as long as I can remember (using 1.4.5 currently but started with
> 1.dontaskme) it simply is ~/evolution

That's correct for the mentioned data.


For backup purposes, you don't need all those mail indexing files and
can save a lot of backup space. Those files will be recreated after
restoring from backup when Evolution is running the first time.

You can prune all indexing files mbox.* in your ~/evolution/local/
(sub)folders. (Note the dot! Do backup the mbox file itself, as it holds
the mail!)


Backing up settings and accounts can be a bit trickier:

Some special (and not too vital parts) are stored in different
directories. SSL certificates are in ~/.camel_certs/ and spell checking
settings are in ~./gnome/gnome-spell IIRC.

FYI: Evolution 1.4.x stores most of its settings using GConf, so you
should backup ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ too if you wanna save your
settings and accounts.

...guenther


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