[Evolution] Backing up.

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Mon Mar 8 00:23:47 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 00:00, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote:
> How does one backup Evolution so that it still works after either a
> fresh OS install or an upgrade?

What media are you planning to back up to? Let's assume you have some
disk partition or something already mounted on your system. Then all you
have to do is this:

evolution --force-shutdown
tar -cjvf /path/to/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution

To restore, do this:

evolution --force-shutdown
cd ~
tar -xjvf /path/tp/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2

If you are planning on backing up to CD-R(W) then reply and tell you the
extra steps you need to take.n

> Thanks.

You're welcome.

Best, Darren

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