Re: [Evolution] Moving evo data tree to another machine...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:12 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:33 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > I know it's perfectly safe to backup ~/evolution and restore it to the
> > same place without anything breaking. Is the same true for moving an
> > archive of ~/evolution to a completely different machine?
> > 
> > Obviously the hostname and IP address
>
> these don't matter to evo
>
> >  will be different on the new
> > machine, whilst for what I'm planning the user name will stay the same
>
> sounds good.
>
> > but the user numerical ID will be different.
>
> evo doesn't care about userid's, but the system does - so you'll need to
> chown -R the migrated directory.
If you use tar it should do this, or if you run it as yourself obviously it will have no choice.
> also, you'll want to backup ~/.gconf/apps/evolution for the settings.
>
> > 
> > Can I expect this to work (obviously adjusting settings in evo as
> > necessary once running) without and hand-editing of stuff first within
> > the 'new' ~/evolution tree?
>
> yes, with the chown exception mentioned above.
And assuming that the home directory is still at the same path.

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