Re: [Evolution] Speed of restore - Evolution 3.2.3

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 16:06 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I thought it was the suggested was of migration between disparate
> > releases?
> > If I want to move an 'x' Evolution release to say a 'y' release, what
> > way would there
> > be of doing it without backup/restore? 
>
> The same as you backup and restore all the rest of your data - there is
> code in Evo to migrate old settings, so just restoring your backed up
> home directory to a new machine will also copy over all the Evolution
> settings and data.
>
> How do you migrate all the data for all the rest of your applications??
>
> P.
Pete,
To me it depends on what the application is. If I'm using a database, I would tend to use the databases backup and restore utility (as I do for Informix and Postgresql).
If I'm backing up my own applications, I know where the data is and what the implications are, so will happily backup the structure and restore it.

Basically, if the application provides a backup and restore, I would tend to use that rather than backing up a 'structure' - as the problem with backup up a structure is in knowing where all the data is. I would assume that the product knows where all its data is, and by using the products backup/restore can't end up with mismatched or missing data/settings. 


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