Re: [Evolution] Evolution backups: is there a max size of the evolution-backup-20171231.tar.gz file

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2017-12-31 at 15:20 -0900, glenn wrote:
> Hi all- 
> My Evolution backup appear to be topping out at 7.7 gb in size. Is this
> a maximum size for the produced evolution-backup-20171231.tar.gz file? 
>
> I've been using Evolution since the Ximian days: some of the items in
> my backups stretch back to that era. Happy New Years. Glenn

You don't say what version of Evolution you have. Please *always* state
this when asking questions (Help->About).

As has been discussed several times on the list, the Backup function is
really a misnomer. It's not intended for regular daily backups but for
capturing the state of your mail (and only your mail, not contacts,
tasks, address book etc.) when moving to a new system. You should use a
standard home directory backup strategy as well as (or instead of) this
function.

That said, the backup is just a big tar.gz file with the local state in
it. If your file won't grow beyond a certain size there might be a
limitation of some kind in your system, such as maximum file size or
disk quota.

poc