[Evolution-users] Question about using the backup option in Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2025-09-29 at 08:56 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-09-28 at 14:48 +0200, Tim McConnell via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > when I back up Evolution via the
> > backup tool, does it save my rules and view images from settings?
> 
> 	Hi,
> it saves all your Evolution configuration options, including the
> accounts configured directly in the Evolution. It does not save the
> credentials, thus you'd need to re-login on the other machine.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean with the "view images". If you mean the view
> settings, then that is saved too.
> 
> You can try whether the restored data satisfies your needs for example
> by creating a new temporary user in the system and restoring from a
> backup file in that user account. Note it's a very simple backup tool,
> it just saves the configuration options and some of the directories
> Evolution uses [1]. For any extended backup you'd need a special tool
> for that, which focuses on the backups, like rsync (I'm not using it
> myself, I only heard some users use it).

I think it should be said that this is not really the intended use of
Backup/Restore. Accessing the same account from multiple machines is
much better done either via server-side mail (e.g. IMAP, strongly
preferred by many and well-supported in Evolution) or by a judicious
use of POP with the 'keep messages on server' option.

poc