Re: [Evolution] Backup strategy and move evolution data among two or more PCs

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 09:24 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> There appears to be much confusion on how to do this for those who 
> are not on 
> servers.
> I use my laptop for evolution (3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04).  I 
> also have 
> a desktop with same version of evolution and same OS.
> Home directories of both PC as well as other partitions on each SSD 
> are backed 
> up remotely to SpiderOak.
> I regularly backup evolution using the backup function and store the 
> backups on 
> a SSD partition that is only for data files.  In other words, I can 
> reinstall 
> Ubuntu and not have to worry about overwriting evolution back up 
> files.
[etc.]

Good practice is to keep one's home directory on a separate partition
(for system updates) and back it up every night with an automatic
system (cron script usually). Your method seems rather manual and thus 
error-prone.

However the requirements of backup and those of synchronization between
multiple clients are not the same. As I mentioned in a previous post, I
have a whole bunch of email clients on different platforms accessing
the same email accounts. I definitely don't want to have to remember to
turn each of them off and transfer all my email to a different one
before using it. That's what servers are for.

poc