Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Dennis Reichel <dennis reichel net>]

> just a little clarification about backing up any remote data
> (including
> IMAP, NNTP, EWS, CalDAV, WebDAV, On The Web, ... basically anything
> what stores its data into ~/.cache), the built in backup doesn't
> store/restore these caches, because that's only a local copy of the
> server data, which is about to change the next time the mail folders,
> calendars,... are updated. What the backup stores is the description
> of
> the account, thus the next start after restore the evolution can
> connect to the server and get fresh data from it. Of course, it has a
> disadvantage of loading folder summaries from scratch, which can take
> its time when the folders are large. It's still less data than
> backing
> up copy of the server content.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Thanks Milan, this is important to know.

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