Re: [Evolution] Evolution not listening to quit

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Personally, I don't back up Evolution explicitly. I do back up my home
> directory every night (using rsnapshot) but this almost always happens
> while my session is logged in. I have been doing this for years and
> have never lost an email. I probably also helps that my accounts are
> IMAP-based, so what's in the local Evolution store is mostly cached
> information.
>
> So it's not clear to me that stopping Evo during a backup is actually
> necessary.

Even if you would use POP accounts and Evolution would automatically
download messages during the backup, it shouldn't matter.

I'm using POP accounts, but I make backups of whole Linux installs, not
just of Evolution or of a /home folder. I restart the computer and boot
into another Linux, to backup installs that aren't running, either via
'cp -ai' or usually by 'tar --xattrs -czf' and FWIW I 'dd' MBRs. FreeBSD
allows to backup a running install by the 'dump' command. Actually I
restored broken Linux installs from backups heaps of times, _always_
being successfully. I can't comment on FreeBSD, since I dropped it.