Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore

["Celsun ." <tarcell hotmail com>]

> From: "D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>
> To: "Celsun ." <tarcell hotmail com>
> CC: evolution lists ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:01:03 +0000
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 18:14, 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
>
> This seems odd. Which directory were you in when you ran the command
> "tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution"? Because from what you wrote above
> it appears that you were in ~/evolution and not in ~. In which case you
> have made a tarball of the contents of ~/evolution/evolution which is
> not what you wanted.

Unforturnately, I was in ~/evolution instead of ~. Evidently, I didn't fully 
understand posts I was taking notes from.

> This is what you should have done:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
> tar -cvzf evolution.tar.gz evolution
>
> > 	this did create the archive and I moved it to a FAT partition on 
> another
> > hard drive
> >
> >    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
>
> Again, this just looks odd. Let's say that you did do the first step
> correctly and you do have a tarball of ~/evolution and NOT
> ~/evolution/evolution. If so, then you do NOT want to move evolution
> into ~/evolution (if you hadn't run evolution before did you have to
> create that directoty?)

No, the directory was already there.  Maybe I did run it... don't remember.

> but instead move it into ~ (in other words its
> full pathname should be /home/celsun/evolution.tar.gz.
>
> >    tar xzvf evolution.tar.gz
>
> That is the correct command to extract the tarball if it was created
> from your home directory and if you are running it from your home
> directory.
>
> >    Nothing happened  after trying it a couple of times it created
> > ~/evolution/~/evolution or         something like that
>
> That's because it looks like you have manually created an evolution
> directory, and then put the tarball in it and unpacked it there. The
> good news is that it looks like you have created the tarball correctly
> (so you haven't lost anything, unless you've deleted it now) but you are
> just unpacking it in the wrong directory.

As stated above the ~/evolution directory was already there.

> >    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?
>
> See above. Hopefully you created the tarball correctly and have just
> been untarring it in the wrong place, so you haven't lost anything. Of
> course if you created the tarball incorrectly in the first place too
> then you are screwed.
>
> > Unfortunately, evolution was not backed up so I've lost over a year's 
> worth
> > of e-mails.
>
> But you still have the tarball don't you?

Yes

> I think you can still recover your original mail. Do this:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> mv evolution evolution.new
> tar -xvzf path/to/evolution.tar.gz
>
> then run evolution. Hopefully all your old data will be back. Now the
> only thing left is to import any new data from ~/evolution.new/ back
> into Evolution using File -> Import.

Well, tried it and nothing happened.  First, I copied the tar.gz into ~/ and 
that didn't work.  Then, tried from the other drive where the tar.gz is.

> HTH,
>
> Darren

Thank you Darren.  Using what you've posted above for archiving and 
restoring, I will try that and then delete ~/evolution for a little 
practice.

Celsun

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