Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Dario Lesca <d lesca solinos it>]

Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 23.58 +0200, Ángel González ha scritto:
> Evolution uses different folders for different types of content,
> following the XDG Base Specification, which is actually a good thing.

Yes, i agree, this is a good thing.

> > From this info:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en
> > I understand want to copy this folder:

Then the folder to restore from backup are this two:

~/.local/share/evolution
~/.config/evolution

> That's true, although it's a problem of dconf, not something specific
> to evolution.
>
> You can export only evolution-related data with: 
>
> dconf  dump /org/gnome/evolution/
> dconf  dump /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/

Good! this is a useful info, thanks!
> From now, before a backup I dump the evo's dconf setting into a text
file for restore it

Question: It's possible extract with dconf (or gsettings) the
evolution's data directly from the backup folders, for example from
/mnt/bk/home/user/.config/dconf/ if I do not have dump it before? How
to?

> Zan wrote:
> > One single .application directory like Firefox uses in .mozilla and
> > Thunderbird in .thunderbird is far more manageable and useful.
>
>
> Actually, Firefox no longer does this. It now uses: 
>
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profilename>/
> ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/<profilename>/
>
>
> Which is a perfect example of why the XDG spec split the folders in
> this way, instead of saying "put everything about the program into
> ~/.apps/<programname>".
>
> It makes no sense to include in a firefox backup hundreds of MB that
> are just downloaded web pages and won't be of any use if restored
> later. Excluding ~/.cache you can easily exclude from a backup the
> unneeded data from all (conformant) programs.

Ok, I agree, I newer restore ~/.cache/mozilla/ but only
 ~/.mozilla/firefox/

Many thanks

-- 
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 22 con Gnome 3.16)