Re: [Evolution] Back up and restore procedures

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You should use gconftool-2 --dump xxxxx rather than shutting down gconf and backing up the files - in some versions of gconfd, the file locations changed.

There is also .gnome2_private/Evolution for any saved passwords.


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:59 -0500, Celsun . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What alterations are needed to use the following to back up and restore Evo 
> 2.x.x? (/.evolution being one.)
>
> ======
> BACKUP
> ======
> evolution --force-shutdown
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdwon
>
> cd ~
>
> find ~/evolution/local/ -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> tar -cvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz evolution .gconf/apps/evolution
>
>
> =======
> RESTORE
> =======
> evolution --force-shutdown
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
>
> cd ~
>
> tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz
>
> Thanks,
>
> Celsun
>
>
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