[wellylug] Backing up Evolution files...

[Sam]

You'll need to back up both the ~/evolution directory and the relevant
gconf2 metadata.

so .. tar czvf ~/evolution-backup.tar.gz ~/evolution

and then run gconf2-editor and dump out the evolution section.  Unsure how
to do that as I've never tried, but it shouldn't be too hard. :)

If the gconf editor doesn't have an export function, the gconf data is in
an xml file in your ~.

If you haven't seen gconf2 before, it's very similar to the registry in
That Other OS(tm) ;)

On 24 Sep 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> I'm looking at installing Linux onto another PC and want to migrate my
> Evolution mailboxes etc. to the other PC - the PC's are remote from each
> other so the only option is to somehow backup the entire Evolution data
> directory (using tar?) then restore it to the other machine.
> Can someone give me a simple 'how-to' for this.
>
> tia
>
> Jamie
>
>
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