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

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Hi John

and wow this is the first useful information
I also have never heard of SpiderOak but read at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderOak.ak.
This really is very interesting many thanks

Best regards
Ralph



---- John Lauterbach <lauterba bellsouth net> schrieb:
> 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.  These 
> data partitions are also backed up on SpiderOak.  Before doing backups make 
> sure evolution is set to NOT retrieve e-mails when first opened.
> I also regularly move an evolution backup file to one of my desktop PCs.  My 
> evolution backup files are about 5.6 GB in size so I copy the backup file to a 
> Western Digital Passport drive (500 GB).  I then move the Passport drive to the 
> desktop PC and copy the backup file to the SSD on the desktop PC. I generally 
> place in the Desktop folder, but that is arbitrary choice on my part.  I then 
> restore evolution to the desktop PC.  Again, evolution on desktop had been set 
> previously NOT to retrieve e-mail when it is opened.  Once the restore is 
> complete I visually check to see that important mail folders are still intact.
> I have used this procedure for almost a year now, and the only problems I have 
> had are when the copy to/from Passport drive does not run correctly.
> Thank you for reading.  Please critique.
> John