Re: [Evolution] Data migration Evolution 2.24.5 to 3.4.3

[Brian A Anderson <BrianAAnderson q com>]

I believe I have found a procedure to follow to do a migration/merge of
data from a backup.tar.gz file from the old 2.24.5 version to the newer
3.4.3 version.

The key piece of info that I needed was the format of the two different
versions.   Since I was only really using evolution as a mail system I
could ignore most of the other files.  I was only really interested in
extracting the mail messages from the old version and saving them.

Meanwhile I had started to use 3.4.3 so I had msgs that I did not want
to lose so a full restore was out of the question.  And the project
became a merge of data from the old into the newer version.

As I said before the prospect of upgrading the version on the dying
machine was not available.

I am in the process of writing a summary/procedure of what I did and how
it works so that it can be done by those who suffer from the same
problem I encountered.    I will post those notes to this mailing list.
I warn it is a bit long.   But I hope it would help some.

Thanks to those that responded and provided me the info needed to learn
what I learned.

Thanks,
Brian Anderson
 




On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:52 -0600, Brian A Anderson wrote:
> How do I migrate from one machine running Evolution 2.24.5 to another
> machine running Evolution 3.4.3.
>
> Please note that the older machine (running 2.24.5) is dying a slow
> hardware death.
>
> I tried backup on old machine and restore on new machine.
> No go.  It appears that the data is totally different in organization.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
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