Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data

[James Lay <jlay slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2015-07-28 06:21 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 06:07 -0600, James Lay wrote:
> > Topic kinda says it...I'd like to try and archive my data, but not do
> > a full backup.  Right now I'm focused on emails and sent items.  My
> > hope is to archive off say....all emails and sent items of 2013 into
> > a file or directory, and then be easily easy to open (not import) an
> > email if I'd like to reference it.  Is there anything like that
> > available, or a method to do that with Evolution?  Thank you.
>
> Could you explain *why* you would like to do that / which underlying
> problem you would like to solve, and what is the difference between
> your interpretation of the words "open" and "import"?
>
> Also, which mail account type is this about? Which Evolution version?
>
> andre

Thanks for looking at this Andre,

My Evolution version is 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 (I like sticking with the 
longer term releases).  It has run flawlessly for me.  The account type 
is POP3.

I currently don't have any issues yet.  I have done just the full 
backup, and that has worked fine.  My concern however is that my 
Evolution data is around 3 gigs.  I'd like to trim that....and keep say 
all of 2014 up to current emails and and sent items.  I can easily just 
do another full backup and delete everything prior to 2014, but there 
doesn't seem to be an effective method that I have found to access those 
emails and sent items should I need to recall them.  I know I could most 
likely just do a restore in a VM, and I may have to do that, but that 
seems a little cumbersome.

As for open and import, I'm thinking like...I guess Outlook 
maybe....where you can treat an email as a file object...double-click it 
and open.  Import makes me think of copying data from a file, or 
directory, into my active Evolution data directory.

I hope that helps explain...thanks again.

James