Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

[mario chiari <ml mariochiari net>]

Hi Pete, All, 


I am writing just to report I succeeded  to move my 9.5Gb mail archive
to my new machine. Thanks for your support.


Evo's internal Export did not work, most likely because I did not have
enough free space on the old machine. 
What did work was to mount by nfs the old <home> directory on the new
machine, and just to copy over two directories:
<home>/.config/evolution and <home>/.local/share/evolution.  To copy
the latter took more than one hour. Everything was preserved: mails,
folders, accounts, filters.

Before to copy, I did try to pkill Evolution on both machines, but I am
not sure it really matters. 

Thanks
Cheers
mario

On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 15:32 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I need to move my mails (several Gigas) and the different pieces of
> > configuration (accounts, filters, ..) to a new machine.  Clearly,
> > folder structure has to be preserved too.  Eventually everything
> > has
> > to
> > work as before. 
> >
> > Which is the safer way to get that?
> >
> > Note
> > Old machine: Fedora 22, Evolution 3.16.5
> > New machine: Fedora 23, Evolution 3.18.5.1
> > I may access the old machine by nfs. 
> There are a couple of ways.
>
> You can create a backup tar file from the 'File' menu ("Back up
> Evolution Data") and then restore it on the new machine.
>
> Transferring your whole home directory will also transfer all the
> Evolution data and settings - but that is only really useful if you
> actually want all your home moved!  Make sure you aren't logged in to
> your account when you move things (or it will get messy) - what I
> tend
> to do is to copy your old home to something like '/home/user.old'
> then
> logout of your username, login as (say) root and do 'mv /home/user
> /home/user.x ; mv /home/user.old /home/user'.  When you log back in
> as
> 'user' everything will be there.
>
> Finally you can selectively copy the relevant Evolution directories -
> but that needs you to work out everything that is needed!
>
> P.