Re: [Evolution] Quick question on Evolution Backup and Restore

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 13:15 -0500, Charles wrote:

> Currently my /evolution folder is around 1.0 GIG or so.. I want to back
> it up and restore after I format my machine..
>
> just making sure I am doing things right.. Looking through the lists I
> see tips on Backup and restore.. But want to be sure I have it all right
>
> I was going to preform:
>
> ########################################
> #BACKUP:
> ########################################
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
> tar -cvzf /home/charles/evolution.tar.gz evolution .gconf/apps/evolution
>
> ########################################
> #RESTORE:
> ########################################
>
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> mv evolution evolution.old
> mv .gconf/apps/evolution evolution.gconf.old
> tar -xvzf /home/charles/restoreme/evolution.tar.gz
>
>
> I am also trying to step thogh the find line to understand what it is
> doing..
>
> find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
>
> (Finding mbox.* files in the evolution folders and deleting them? not
> really sure how to read that) Is it ok to delete those?)

I would suggest you don't delete anything.  If everything is working
correctly any meta-data files should only be a fraction of the total
space required.  And making a mistake in a command you dont understand
could be somewhat disasterous.

You also have to shutdown/or/sync gconf before any of the backups/moves/
restores.  I use shutdown, but then i dont use any other apps that use
gconf.

gconftool-2 --shutdown