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

[Alexander Miller <ambler shaw ca>]

On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 18:05 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> >  
> > 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.

Not sure to whom this is addressed? It appears to be a response to a post of which I don't have - or maybe haven't retained - a copy.
Thanks for all the helpful advice.
No need to reply :)