Okay, I have to admit I gave been lazy and have fallen far behind the the curve on Fedora releases. I am currently running FC14 and I want to upgrade to FC20. My question for the board is as follows:
Since I am so far behind the current release of Fedora will I have any trouble restoring a backup of my Evolution files to FC20 Evolution once I upgrade? I have searched the web for advice on this but I can't find any information that answers this question.
I am concerned that I am making too big of a leap in Evolution versions and need to consider an intermediate step of upgrading to FC16 or FC17, restoring my Evolution data and backing it up again to make the leap to FC20.
Currently running FC14 & Evolution 2.32.3
Thanks for any advice that can be shared.
Charlie
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 08:55:43PM -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote:
Since I am so far behind the current release of Fedora will I have any trouble restoring a backup of my Evolution files to FC20 Evolution once I upgrade? I have searched the web for advice on this but I can't find any information that answers this question.
I am concerned that I am making too big of a leap in Evolution versions and need to consider an intermediate step of upgrading to FC16 or FC17, restoring my Evolution data and backing it up again to make the leap to FC20.
I have no idea, but I'd suggest copying your data into a VM and trying it. Or, alternately, make a backup of your data, and then do the upgrade, and if it _doesn't_ work, try installing FC17 in a VM and using that as an intermediate step, and so on (but hopefully it just works).
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 20:55 -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote:
Okay, I have to admit I gave been lazy and have fallen far behind the the curve on Fedora releases. I am currently running FC14 and I want to upgrade to FC20. My question for the board is as follows:
Since I am so far behind the current release of Fedora will I have any trouble restoring a backup of my Evolution files to FC20 Evolution once I upgrade? I have searched the web for advice on this but I can't find any information that answers this question.
I am concerned that I am making too big of a leap in Evolution versions and need to consider an intermediate step of upgrading to FC16 or FC17, restoring my Evolution data and backing it up again to make the leap to FC20.
Currently running FC14 & Evolution 2.32.3
I would strongly advise checking the Evolution mailing list archives (https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list) where there has been recent discussion of this. 2.32 is a really old version and data formats have changed substantially. That said, a lot depends on your account setup. If you keep everything on IMAP it will be a lot less painful.
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