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: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:18:33 +0000
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 21:47, Celsun . wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Note that the step about copying/backing-up ~/.gconf/apps/evolution is
> also necessary (and which you got right). You can combine it all into
> one step:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
> tar -cvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz evolution .gconf/apps/evolution
>
> (replacing "/path/to/" with the actual directory/mountpoint where you
> want the backup). To restore, do this:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz
>
> that will overwrite your current files with the old ones. If you want to
> move the old ones first, rather than overwrite them, do this:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> mv evolution evolution.old
> mv .gconf/apps/evolution evolution.gconf.old
> tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz
>
> HTH.
>
> Best, Darren


Darren,

Thanks!!!

Will definitley try this.

Celsum

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