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

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 14:08 -0600, larry wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 19:26 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > If you still want to use manual backup, then I suppose you know
> > > > what to save. Just in case, it's written here:
> > > > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html
> > > That's an interesting list.
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I need .cache, and I
> > > think the various .config directories can be easily regenerated by
> > > deleting them all and restarting Evolution.
> > Yeah, it'll regenerate them, but they won't relate to the data you've
> > backed up.  You will loose things like account configurations and so
> > on.
>
> In that case, I guess I'll back those up too, at least until I can find
> a way to use the built-in backup utility from a bash script run with
> cron.
Milan has already pointed you at the command to use within a script -
i.e.

 /usr/libexec/evolution/evolution-backup --backup /mnt/backup/evo-backup-X.tar.gz

the location of that command may vary with distro.

P.