Re: [Evolution] Backup/Restore

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 11:58 -0800, Mr. J wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 12:51 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > 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? 
> > Evolution's data files are largely text based, there's nothing
> > magical
> > about them. They are successfully backed and restored by any normal
> > backup program.
> >
> > Evolution's data storage locations are in the application Help if
> > you
> > want to specifically back them up.
> >
> > If you use IMAP though, your mail is largely held on a server
> > somewhere
> > else and makes local backups less critical.
> >
> > P.
>
> Thanks to you and ATW.  For reasons I'm not quite able to articulate,
> I never tried to restore (or back up Evolution) with Deja-Dup.  I've
> now switched to Lucky, and will try your suggestions.

I hadn't heard of Lucky Backup but its web page says that development
is "virtually frozen". It's dated 2009. Personally I've used rsnapshot
(also based on rsync) and am now using Borgmatic, a wrapper for Borg,
which like Deja Dup does deduplication. There are many other options.

poc