Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > [ snip ]
> > Ack.
>
> guenther, this doesn't even begin to describe how I felt, when I realized 
> all those e-mails, contacts, etc... were gone.   :-(  Even now, I try not to 
> think about it.

Celsun, this was in no way intended as you seem to understand it. I am
*really* sorry for you.

The "ack" is just a short way to say, the above is totally correct.
That's what I intended, as the info by Darren was really good. I just
wanted to comment and try to help.


> guenther, the parts done correctly on my first attempt were from your posts 
> on October 2003 - "Tips on restoring Evolution from backup" and November 
> 2003 - "Mail folder file locations." Thank you.  The parts that messed me up 
> were from posts in late August and early September 2003.  The confusing part 
> of those posts was just a plain "cd".  Yes, I'm new to Linux.  :-)

I just re-checked all those mails, and at least there is no false advice
given. This sure does not make your situation any better. I only checked
to make sure, there is nothing wrong left in the archives.

In fact, I am kinda paranoid when I advice folks how to mess with their
sensitive data. I double check those commands and I even treat them on
my own accounts before posting. Thus they are often copied directly from
my console.


> > > > 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?
> >
> > You should not have seen any file being archived (the v parameter is for
> > verbose, and thus any file archived is displayed while archiving).
>
> Maybe I didn't state the above correctly.  After I typed "tar czvf 
> evolution.tar.gz evolution", the screen scrolled real fast displaying the 
> files.

Your description was fine. Using verbose mode, those are the files being
archived. I just don't see, how you could get any output like that, if
there is no such directory. :-/

...guenther


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