Re: [Evolution] Speed of restore - Evolution 3.2.3

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 16:11 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> If all the Evo data and settings are now in flat files, is it feasible
> to just produce a sample shell script to show how to move all the data
> from one machine to another and put it in the FAQ?

Yeah, you'd just copy or zip up files in

   $HOME/.local/share/evolution
   $HOME/.config/evolution

and optionally

   $HOME/.cache/evolution

It's already alluded to in:
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en

But we could put more explicit instructions in:
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/backup-restore.html.en

Unfortunately it's difficult to extract Evolution-specific settings from
dconf's on-disk binary blob, but we don't keep anything real critical in
dconf nowadays; mostly just one-click preference values.  Currently even
the Backup tool leaves them behind.

Matthew Barnes