Re: [Evolution] Backup/Restore

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 17:47 -0800, Mr. J wrote:
> Friends: I'm using Evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 20.04, and
> have
> been using it happily for years.  Recently, because of user error,
> I've become more diligent in backing up.  I would like, however, to
> be
> able to do an incremental backup rather than wait the time necessary
> for the Evolution to back up everything. Is there such an animal
> available within the Evolution program? If not, do any of the other
> programs (i.e. Deja-Dup or Lucky Backup) allow one to back up and
> recover the then up-to-date Evolution data? 
> Thank you for the support.

I, and I suspect most people, simply rsync $HOME to as external block
storage / filesystem.  That is as incremental as it gets.

The --link-dest allows the creation of very efficient [object level
duplication] incremental backups which are trivial to manage and
navigate.

Depending on the type of accounts you use in Evolution much of the DATA
may not be locally persistent.

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