Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore

[Bram Mertens <bram-mertens linux be>]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:01, D. D. Brierton wrote:
[...]
> 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. This is what you should have done:
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
> tar -cvzf evolution.tar.gz evolution
[...]

Here are the commands I use to backup evolution:
evolution --force-shutdown
find ~/evolution -name "mbox.*" > exclude-index
tar --exclude-from=exclude-index  -cjf yyyyyymmdd.tar.bz2 ~/evolution

The result should be the same btu the indexes aren't removed so nothing
changes for me when I restart evolution after backing it up.

HTH

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