Re: [Evolution] Automated backups

[ard <arddix sfr fr>]

Hi

Thanks for that

I use kbackup on a daily cron

And mirror to a usb once a week, 

So I will stop using the evo backup

Cheers

Tony

On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 11:20 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 12:03 +0100, ard wrote:

> Hi

> re 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 

> Is there a way to automate the evolution backup? There does not appear

> to be a command line option to call via a cron job

> or is it enough to simply tar

> ~/.config/evolution

> ~/.local/share/evolution

> When I use the built in command it takes a very long time - up to 10

> mins, I know my backups are large - around 1.5G, but a simple tar takes

> a lot less time

Do *not* use the "Back up Evolution data" menu item to backup

Evolution. That's not what it's for. We've had discussions here about

changing the name but apparently it still misleads people. That option

is intended to be used only when moving your Evolution data to a new

computer (or a new installation if your home directory is going to be

wiped). It also doesn't backup everything, for example spam filters and

some other stuff (the Help document isn't very specific).

Use a proper backup solution for your home directory. There are many on

Linux which are designed to work with cron if correctly configured. You

should be backing up your home directory anyway (in fact you should

probably be backing up your machine, but that's your call) and this is

definitely the way to do it.

Note that if you use IMAP, your mails don't need to be backed up as

long as the IMAP server is properly managed.

poc

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