backing up and restoring gconf keys

[Bram Mertens <bram-mertens linux be>]

Hi

I wrote a little script to automate backing up my evolution (version
2.0.3-1.2) settings. Essentially the script does this:
evolution --force-shutdown
tar -cjf /data/backup/YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 ~/.evolution
gconftool-2 --shutdown
tar -cjf /data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 ~/.gconf/apps/evolution

However recently I was told that I shouldn't save my gconf settings the
way I do now. In stead I should use:
gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > /data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.xml

The result of this command does appear to contain all the relevant keys
BUT I can't seem to find how I can restore these keys.

What is the command I need to read this file back into gconf?

Neither the gconftool-2 manpage nor http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
mention the dump option and the output of isn't very helpful to me...

Perhaps gconftool-2 --load=/data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.xml is what I
need but how do I specify the directory the keys should be loaded into?
m8ram imladris:~$ gconftool-2 --help
Usage: gconftool-2 [OPTION...]
[...]
  --dump	Dump to standard output an
                XML description of all
                entries under a directory,
                recursively.
  --load=STRING Load from the specified file
                an XML description of values
                and set them relative to a
                directory.

TIA
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