Re: [Evolution] Creating a backup script

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 03:36 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:14 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > evolution-1.5 --force-shutdown 
> >
> > Hey, that's clever.  I wonder if it will cause all instances of Evo
> > to die, if run by root?
>
> Yes, that's what I'm afraid of.  Is there a way to avoid killing any
> active instances? 

But wouldn't you want that, in order to get a "quiet-point" backup?

> > Try this instead:
> > cd ~andrew
> > $ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files
> > tar cfj evolution_files_${x}.tar.bz2 \
> >  --recursion \
> >  --exclude=.evolution/cache/http \
> >  --exclude=.evolution/imap \
> >  .evolution
>
> Yeah, that's much slicker than my own.  However, I get an error with it:
>
> tar: /home/andrew/.evolution_files_040420.0328.tar.bz2: Cannot stat: No
> such file or directory
>
> I can't figure out what that is.

Hmm, this works for me, since I just tested it:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
cd ~
x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files
tar cfj evolution_files_${x}.tar.bz2 \
  --recursion \
  --exclude=.evolution/cache/http \
  --exclude=.evolution/imap \
  .evolution

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>