Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore

["Celsun ." <tarcell hotmail com>]

> From: guenther <guenther rudersport de>
> To: "Celsun ." <tarcell hotmail com>
> CC: darren dzr-web com, evolution lists ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore
> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:54:16 +0100
>
>
> > > [ 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.

guenther, I wasn't offended by it.  Thought it meant something like "argh", 
"yuck", or anything else that describes the woe I was feeling.


> 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.

Thank you and others for being patient and understanding and taking time to 
clarify things.  guenther, you have been a big 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.

guenther, please accept my apology for this misunderstanding.  I surely DID 
NOT mean to imply that any of the advice was incorrect.  I take full 
responsibilty for the outcome of my situation.  Your posts were very helpful 
to me because they "went the extra mile" for someone with limited knowledge.
> > > > > 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

Even though it was done in the wrong directory :-(  I think the backup was 
done correctly.  When trying to restore it nothing happened.  Now I remember 
the other command I used was "tar -zxvf /home/evolution/evolution.tar.gz -C" 
  ('tar --help' is my new friend)

Celsun

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