Backing up Evolution

Kim Lux lux at diesel-research.com
Wed Nov 3 23:17:44 UTC 2004


I did that on my last reinstall, but it doesn't back up everything.  It
didn't save my account settings.  All the emails came across just fine. 


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 17:15 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:44 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > Hey, all,
> > 
> > Is there a clean and simple way to back up Evolution settings?
> > Everything from files and folders to account settings and passwords.
> > This is the one thing that gets very messy when I have to reinstall my
> > system (for RC5, for example), and it's going to happen again on FC3
> > release.
> > 
> > If I could just back up/restore this one app cleanly, everything else
> > falls into place easily. Is there any such application (or even set of
> > instructions)?
> 
> tar zcvf evol-back.tar.gz ~/.evolution
> -- 
> A: Because people read from top to bottom.
> Q: Why is top-posting bad?
> 
> Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
> 
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Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc




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