Re: [Evolution] Take Evolution offline from a bash script?

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 15:37 -0600, larry wrote:
> I want to back up Evolution mail using a cron job.
> I want to use tar, but I would prefer that files in the
> evolution/mail
> don't change while it's happening.
> Is there any way to take it offline, then back online from a bash
> script?

You could shut it down. 
Or restart it with "evolution --offline".

andre
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