Re: [Evolution] backing up for restore after reinstall

["Stephen Liu" <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Not and other folks

I am trying to copy all email boxes of an USER, such Inbox, Outbox,
Sent, etc. from Evolution 1.4 running on a RH8.0 box to another
Evolution 1.4 running on a RH9.0 box, same USER, and encountered
difficulty as follows;

Steps taken
RH8.0 box
# mkdir /home/satimis/Temp/
# tar -zcvf /home/satimis/Temp/backup_local.tar.gz
/home/satimis/evolution/local/

Burnt the tarball on a CD

Untar
RH9.0 box
The CD was automatically mounted

Test-1
# tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz -C
/home/satimis/evolution/local

The tarball was decompressed to
/home/satimis/evolution/local/home/satimis/evolution/local/

I tried to copy a file/email from the untared Inbox to
/home/satimis/evolution/local/Inbox/  but it could not work.  Starting
Evolution could not see that email in the Inbox.  Maybe copying files or
folders/directories from the untared /home/satimis/evolution/local/ and
pasting the same to /home/satimis/evolution/local/ of RH9.0 are not the
correct procedure.

Test-2
# tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz -C

I saw on the Konsole window the tarball has been decompressed but I
could not locate the decompressed folder/directory afterwords.

Could you please advise what shall be the correct syntax to tar
/home/satimis/evolution/local/  on RH8.0 box and untar the tarball on
RH9.0 box.

Thanks in advance.

B.Regards
Stephen Liu



On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:07, Not Zed wrote:
> Backup everything in ~/evolution for all email, calendar, addressbook,
> vFolder and filters.
>
> If you also need to keep configuration defaults, and mail accounts, then
> also backup ~/.gconf/apps/evolution at least.
>
> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 19:37, Thinker wrote:
> > I am going to wipe my machine out and reinstall SuSE 8.2 tonight. What
> > do I need to do so that I don't lose any of my emails from evolution
> > 1.4.4? I plan to burn my documents folder and whatever else I need to to
> > a disk before I wipe it all.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.


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