Re: [Evolution] Backing up.

["J. Kelley Jernigan" <hovercraft nc rr com>]

Darren,

Thank you for the specifics.

As you say, it's simple from the command line. 
But only if you know how to do it. :)


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 04:00, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 01:08, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote:
>
> > I would be doing both.
> > To an FAT32 drive I share with XP-Pro and burning a to a CD-ROM
>
> Okay, if you are backing up to a FAT32 drive then just follow the
steps
> below. (I am assuming your FAT32 drive/partition is mounted somewhere
on
> your system. Just replace "/path/to/your/backup/mountpoint" with the
> actual mountpoint of your FAT32 drive/partition.
>
> To back up to a CD-R(W), do this. First, as root, do this:
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
>
> and make a note of the device number (it has the form x,y,z) of the CD
> burner you want to use that is reported by the above command. In what
> follows, replace x,y,z with the actual number you need (it's likely to
> be something like 1,0,0 or 0,0,0). Then do this:
>
> cd ~
> evolution --force-shutdown
> tar -cjvf evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> mkisofs -o evolution.iso -J -R -V "Evolution Backup" evolution.tar.bz2
> cdrecord -v dev=x,y,z evolution.iso
>
> When it is all finished you can double check that your CD backup is
good
> by mounting the CD and doing the following:
>
> md5sum evolution.tar.bz2 /mountpoint/of/cd/evolution.tar.bz2
>
> and making sure that the same number is returned for both files.
>
> Once you know that your CD is good you can remove the backup files
from
> your system by doing this:
>
> rm ~/evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution.iso
>
> To restore your backup just mount your CD and do this:
>
> cd ~
> evolution --force-shutdown
> tar -xjvf /mountpoint/of/cd/evolution.tar.bz2
>
> HTH, Darren
>
> > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 19:23, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 00:00, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote:
> > > > How does one backup Evolution so that it still works after
either a
> > > > fresh OS install or an upgrade?
> > >
> > > What media are you planning to back up to? Let's assume you have
some
> > > disk partition or something already mounted on your system. Then
all you
> > > have to do is this:
> > >
> > > evolution --force-shutdown
> > > tar -cjvf /path/to/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution
~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> > > To restore, do this:
> > >
> > > evolution --force-shutdown
> > > cd ~
> > > tar -xjvf /path/tp/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > If you are planning on backing up to CD-R(W) then reply and tell
you the
> > > extra steps you need to take.n
> > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > You're welcome.
> > >
> > > Best, Darren
-- 
J. Kelley Jernigan
The Hovercrafters Resource
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