Re: [Evolution] Back up and restore procedures

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 20:03 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:30 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
>
> Where can I read more about the gconftool-2? the man page doesn't
> mention the --dump option.
I don't know, gnome or gconf mailing list perhaps?
> gconftool-2 --help says:
>   --dump      Dump to standard output an
>               XML description of all
>               entries under a directory,
>               recursively.
>
> But I can't find how the xml-file should be restored...
> I'd like to update my backup script as well but I'd like to read some
> docs about this first.
>
> BTW gconftool-2 --dump > gconfdump.xml gives:
> Must specify one or more directories to dump.
Well that error message is pretty specific, and tells you all you need to know.
> Some more attempts:
> m8ram imladris:~$ gconftool-2 --dump evolution > gconfdump.xml
> Failure listing entries in `evolution': Bad key or directory name:
> "evolution": Must begin with a slash (/)
> m8ram imladris:~$ gconftool-2 --dump /evolution > gconfdump.xml
>
> This results in:
> <gconfentryfile>
>   <entrylist base="/evolution">
>   </entrylist>
> </gconfentryfile>
>
> finally this appears to be correct:
> gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > gconfdump.xml
Looks right to me, all the keys are in /apps/evolution, why would they be referenced any other way?
> Or isn't it?
>
> Why would one like to back .gnome2_private/Evolution up? Does it contain
> more than just the passwords?
Well, I said above why you might like to.  It only contains passwords.
> TIA
>
> Bram