Re: [Evolution] Migration of existing evolution to new partition? (LONG)

[Bram Mertens <bram-mertens linux be>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:38 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
[...]
> There's really not much else to it, your best bet is the source, or
> ask specific questions on this list.  There are many references in the
> archives to "migration" of data and backing up data, its basically the
> #1 Frequently-asked & answered-Question.

Sorry but I'd have to disagree for version 2.x, what files did or did
not have to be backed up for version 1.x has indeed been covered many
times on this list.  However the file-structure has changed from 1.x to
2.x which is why I asked this question again a couple of days ago (my
message "backing up evolution 2.x" of Wed, 16 Feb 2005).

Celsun posted a message on 19 January (thread called "Back up and
restore procedures") which included AFAIK some errors (which is why I am
CC'ing you). I've been wanting to post about this earlier but have been
busy... Partly because one question remained unanswered until a couple
of days ago.

I'll include the backup and restore procedure Celsun posted with my
comments:
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:59 -0500, Celsun . wrote:
> ======
> BACKUP
> ======
> evolution --force-shutdown
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdwon

As Michael replied to this message it is better to use the gconftool-2
--dump /apps/evolution > /path/to/gconfdump.xml

> cd ~
>
> find ~/evolution/local/ -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f {} \;

With evo 2.x data is stored in ~/.evolution, either this is a typo or
you are still backing up your old (version 1.x) data.
Secondly as I noted above the mbox.* files no longer exist. Mail is now
stored in files like:
Inbox
Inbox.cmeta
Inbox.ev-summary
Inbox.ibex.index
Inbox.ibex.index.data

And subfolders are stored in dirs like:
Inbox.sbd

So in order to remove the indexes something like:
find ~/.evolution/ -name "*.ibex*"
find ~/.evolution/ -name "*.ev-summary*"

would be required

Also I prefer to use these commands to list all files that don't have to
be backed up in a file so the files are excluded from the backup but
aren't deleted...

I would also like to know whether or not ~/.evolution/cache should be
backed up or not.

> tar -cvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz evolution .gconf/apps/evolution

As noted earlier this is then no longer required (or even recommended).

> =======
> RESTORE
> =======
> evolution --force-shutdown
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdown

Again using the --dump option this is not necessary.

Rather you would use:
 gconftool-2 --load /path/to/gconfdump.xml

> cd ~
>
> tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz


I hope someone is willing to answer these questions once more, I'll be
happy to put my updated backup script on my website once I'm sure it
works as expected.


TIA

Bram
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