[wellylug] Backing up Evolution files...

[Jamie Dobbs]

Sam

Thanks for that! I will have a play around and see what I can find out.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam" <sam at plaz.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Backing up Evolution files...


> 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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