Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution 2

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I'm running Evolution 2.02 on FreeBSD. I'm currently upgrading the OS 
> and want therefore a backup of my complete evolution data.
>
> So far I've rsynced ~/.evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution to a spare 
> machine but this machine is lacking the mailaccounts. All data is there, 
> but the configured mail accounts are missing.

Account settings /are/ stored using GConf.

Your likely missed to shut down the respective apps, before copying
their data. In particular:

Run 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' to shut down the GConf daemon, before
copying the data in ~/.gconf around. Recent changes might not be synced
to disk otherwise.

Run 'evolution --force-shutdown' after closing Evolution, to shut down
the backend tasks as well. e-d-s holds your data like Contacts in
memory, and recent changes might not be synced otherwise.

Make sure, both apps are shut down, while copying the data. Other apps
can (and will at some point) respawn CGConf daemon, and the Clock applet
integrates and therefore respawns e-d-s in latest Gnome versions (since
Gnome 2.8).


When copying your data to another $HOME or restoring from backup, shut
down the mentioned apps before. If not, Evolution will continue to use
the data that already is in memory (e-d-s and gconf) rather than using
the just copied data.


> I've copied to the file ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution where the 
> account-information seems to be. But without success.
>
> Is there another file/directory to back up?

Nope, that's it. :)

FWIW, ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution does only hold your passwords, IIRC.

...guenther


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