On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:14, Celsun . wrote:
Someone please point me in the right direction or post step-by-step
instructions for backing up and restoring Evolution.
Following some of the posts on this list I did the following on MDK 9.1 to
backup Evo 1.4.5:
evolution --force-shutdown
pruned all indexing files mbox.* in ~/evolution/local/(sub) folders
In ~/evolution tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution
If you are in ~/evolution try `tar czvf evolution.tar.gz .`
this did create the archive and I moved it to a FAT partition on another hard drive
Don't FAT partitions lose the user permissions on files. I think tar may know about them though? Probably not, the user that uncompresses the file will probably have their permissions put on the new uncompressed files. Anyone else? I'm not sure of the settings, but maybe you'd like to back up more an just your Evo settings as Evo uses a lot of the "GNOME" settings as well.
copied ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ to another hard drive
Restore to a fresh install of Evo 1.4.5, on a fresh install of MDK, before
running it the first time
Moved evolution.tar.gz into ~/evolution from the other hard drive
tar xzvf evolution.tar.gz
This command is correct iff you only tar'd the "local" directory. Otherwise you should have extracted it into ~/ and you may want to tar up the entire ~/evolution directory or just the local mail directory depending on what you want to achieve.
Nothing happened after trying it a couple of times it created
~/evolution/~/evolution or something like that
Copied ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ back
It turned out to be a big mess and even though I saw hundreds of files being
archived, the archive file appears to be empty now. (46B) How and why did
this happen?
Don't know... You must have overwritten your tar file with something when things didn't go right? Burn backups to CD's so that they cannot be over-written. You can also encrypt them if you are worried about security.
Unfortunately, evolution was not backed up so I've lost over a year's worth of e-mails.
Sorry to hear that, best of luck! You're on the right track as far as I can tell. HTH, Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 14:27:04 up 7:28, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.58, 0.43
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