Re: [Evolution] Evo: backing up & restoring to new machine

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:25 -0600, John Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:18, Eric Lambart wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:56 -0600, John Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > Don't want to beat this topic into the ground, but...I went back and
> > > tried this method suggested by Not Zed.  I killed gconf on both
> > > machines, killed evolution on both machines and rsync'd the evolution
> > > and .gconf trees over again.  It did not restore my environment back
> > > to what I expected.
> >
> > Did you just "kill" Evolution, or run "evolution --force-shutdown"?  The
> > latter option should be run before backing up (or restoring) any files,
> > because it causes information held in memory to be written to disk.
> >
> > Eric
> I used 'evolution --force-shutdown' and 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' on
> both computers and then used rsync -av to transfer the evolution
> and .gconf files.
>
> It wasn't a slam-dunk migration but I'm pretty much back to where I
> need to be after some manual config work...

Just making sure.  I don't think I've ever lost data by killing
Evolution outright, but "--force-shutdown" presumably does it more
cleanly.  I have had problems like not being able to view any of my
contacts (or do auto-completion) after a crash (I am using 1.5.7, and it
does crash), but doing a --force-shutdown and restarting seems to fix
that problem.

Eric

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