Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

>  
> While the issue of IMAP v. POP has been widely commented, I have not
> seen comments in the thread about the Linux Mint update procedure
> outlined here:

This is an Evolution list, not a Mint one, and we try to be as distro
agnostic as possible.  Personally, I do not have experience of any
Debian based distro (i.e. Debian, Ubunutu, Mint, etc.) so, without that
knowledge, all I can say is to "make a backup of your home directory" -
it's up to the user to know, or find out, how to do that on their
distro.  There's only so much we can do!

>  
> The process involves making an backup of the home directory (for which
> Mint provides a tool), which would include the Evo data. I would
> follow the Evo backup procedure to try to restore later. However, the
> Mint update procedure should be sufficient to assure that there is a
> separate copy of all data.

To be honest you would be better off using the Evo backup as a back-stop
and actually migrate the data using the new version of Evo running on
the restored copy of the home directory.

P.