Re: [Evolution] Automated backups

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

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

The command line appears to work:

awilliam@bestia:~> /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-backup --
backup  evolution-backup-20200214.tar.gz
evolution-backup-Message: evolution --quit
evolution-backup-Message: rm /home/awilliam/.local/share/evolution/.running
rm: cannot remove '/home/awilliam/.local/share/evolution/.running': No such file or directory
evolution-backup-Message: dconf dump /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/ 
> /home/awilliam/.local/share/evolution/backup-restore-dconf-eds.ini
evolution-backup-Message: dconf dump /org/gnome/evolution/ 
> /home/awilliam/.local/share/evolution/backup-restore-dconf-evo.ini
evolution-backup-Message: cd /home/awilliam && tar chf - .local/share/evolution .config/evolution 
evolution.dir | gzip > 'evolution-backup-20200214.tar.gz'
evolution-backup-Message: rm /home/awilliam/evolution.dir
awilliam@bestia:~> ls -l evolution-backup-20200214.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 awilliam users 456600939 Feb 14 08:15 evolution-backup-20200214.tar.gz

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