Re: [Evolution] Backup contacts only, small correction

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

If you are actually using the script, modify it to use the evolution
binary on your machine, since I use a custom installation in /opt/evo!!
So, change the line which says:
"/opt/evo/bin/evolution" to just "evolution" or where ever your
evolution binary is.
 
Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 19:00 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> Dianne,
>
> Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 14:37 +0000 schrieb Dianne Reuby:
> > Is it possible to backup just my contacts, rather than a full backup?
> > (Perhaps by manually copying files to the backup location?)
>
> You are lucky, Dianne. Just a few days ago, I figured it is somewhat
> inefficient to archive the whole .evolution folder to my usb stick every
> day. So I wrote a little script which uses GNU tar to do an incremental
> backup, see below. Of course, it's necessary to do this from a terminal.
> I hope, you are familiar with that.
>
> So first I would do:
>
> mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-0.tar.gz ## 0-level
> backup, i.e. everything
> next time: 
> mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-1.tar.gz ## level-1
> mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-2.tar.gz ## level-2
> ... and so on
>
> ########################################################
> ### Do incremental backups of your .evolution folder
> #! /bin/bash
>
> echo "Shutting down evolution"
> /opt/evo/bin/evolution --force-shutdown
>
> echo "Backing up gnome configuration for /apps/evolution"
> gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution
> > /home/tom/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml
>
> echo "Creating incremental backup"
> if [ -f "$1"  ] ; then echo "File exists, please choose different
> name" ; exit 1; fi
> cd $HOME && tar chf - .evolution -g .tar-g-evolution | gzip > $1
>
> ########################################################
>
> See also:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Incremental-Dumps.html