Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[John Lauterbach <lauterba bellsouth net>]

Hello Patrick:

Not all of us are on servers.  Also, my laptop (where mail evo with my business-related e-mail) is on 24/7 except when going through airport security, etc.  The same for my two desktops.  I cannot afford to loose what I have on the evo on my laptop.  Yes, one of my business e-mail accounts is IMPAX, but the ISP's server does not store sent e-mail.  Incremental backups are a thing of the past with large capacity 2.5 inch SSDs.  The partition where I keep by evo backups (about 6 GB each still has more than 60 GB free space).  They are also backed up on SpiderOak.  I do not see the objection to doing what works.

John

-----Original Message-----

From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>

To: evolution-list gnome org

Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:55:08 +0100

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule
> backups at a
> certain time each day.  I use SpiderOak for offsite backup.  If I
> could have
> evolution do this automatically, I would never lose more than a day's 
> e-mail.


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. For one thing, it requires Evo to be
running (not much use if you want to schedule it at fixed times). For
another, it doesn't do incremental backups but takes a complete
snapshot every time. This is almost never what you want in a production
context. Use a real backup system, of which there are many in Linux (I
use rsnapshot to a local NAS, but YMMV). You are backing up your systemanyway aren't you?

I think the command should have a different name to avoid this being
brought up time and again, though nothing occurs to me offhand.

poc
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