Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

I recently had to install my stuff to a new system.
I am a lazy guy, I just copied my whole /home folder from my backup
disk over the new virgin /home folder and did allow all data to be
merged.
Worked fine for me...
Fedora 22, evolution 3.16.5, firefox and so on...
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Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 16:18 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 08/09/2015 alle 18.21 +0100, Pete Biggs ha scritto:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Evolution conforms to Gnome standards, because it's a Gnome
> > application.  Firefox/Thunderbird aren't Gnome applications - if
> > they
> > were they should store their data according to Gnome guidelines.
>
> Ok, then?
>
> If I want restore for example only Evo, TB, FF, .ssh from my home's
> backup of my old PC (old.dom.tld) dead, on my new PC, fresh installed
> with some Linux and Evo, TB, FF version, called "new.dom.tld"?
>
> For TB, FF and .ssh is simple: I copy from home's backup the folders
> ~/.thunderbird, ~/.mozilla, and ~/.ssh to new PC and all work fine.
>
> For Evo, what folder I must copy?
>
> From this info:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en
> I understand want to copy this folder:
>
>     ~/.local/share/evolution
>     ~/.config/evolution
>     ~/.cache/evolution
>     ~/.config/dconf (*)
> But into ~/.config/dconf are stored all DCONF setting of all other
> application, an in this case I want to copy only Evo settings, not
> the rest.
> Also, if I copy (rsync) the tree or more Evo's folders from backup of
> old PC to new PC, I understand there is some selinux issue to
> resolve...
>  
> Some can suggest how to do a full restore of Evo settings and data
> from a backup to a new PC?
>
> Many thanks.