[Evolution-users] Archive location?

[larry]

On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 23:08 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 16:10 -0600, larry via evolution-users wrote:
> > On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 17:38 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2026-02-02 at 10:30 -0600, larry via evolution-users wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to set the archive folder to a folder on a
> > > > different
> > > > hard drive?
> > 
> > Thanks Pete. I guess I'll just stick with the local archive. I wanted
> > to put it on my NAS, but that's got a pretty funky path, and
> > occasionally if we get a power bump, it drops.
> 
> As I said, you can rsync the local archive to the NAS for safe keeping.
> You can also do clever things like checking the existence of the NAS
> mount in the cron script and aborting if it doesn't exist. Also many
> NAS boxes accept SSH access and rsync knows how to SSH so you can do
> the copy without using the NAS mount.
> 

I'll have a look at that. Currently, I back up the email nightly, with
a script running from cron, then every Sunday, I copy the previous
Sunday's backup to the NAS.