Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 09/08/2015 09:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your Evo
> installation to another machine.

If the Evolution developers are reading this I'd like to point out
(again) that expecting people to remember and use an obscure,
application-specific backup feature is unrealistic.

What people actually do is backup and restore their entire home
directory. Sometimes they restore just pieces of it. Because, you know,
they might be moving to a new laptop with a 256 GB SSD much smaller than
the 1 TB hard drive they used to have.

Evolution and Gnome itself are very unhelpful with this by spreading
necessary information into at least three different directories: .local,
.config and gsettings / dconf / gconf / whatever-conf.

One single .application directory like Firefox uses in .mozilla and
Thunderbird in .thunderbird is far more manageable and useful.