Re: [Evolution] Clarification re: evolution-backup-tar.gz ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:40 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > This query is not urgent, but I would like to know.
> >
> > Does evolution-backup-tar.gz contain the contents of my mail, contacts,
> > tasks etc. or just the settings?
>
> Yes, it saves the mail (the local mail that is).
>
> > Help manual says, "The back up saves your Evolution gconf settings,
> > mails, contacts, tasks, memos and calendars and creates an archive."
> > which can be interpreted a bit ambiguously.
>
> I don't see the ambiguity.
Having been told that it only saves the settings, the sentence *could*
read that only the settings for mail, settings for contacts, settings
for tasks etc. are backed up.  I admit I didn't read it that way at
first.

> > I have had advice that indicates that just the settings are saved,
> > however when I restored the other day I got most but not all of my
> > content data back.  e.g. missing one contact list/addresses and about 10
> > emails.
>
> It's trivial to test. Create a backup and do:
>
>       tar tvf backup.tar.gz
>
> to get a list of what's there.

You are right.  But having started to double think myself and not being
certain what each and every file type represented I thought I would
double check.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1