On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dominik Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > 2.) Akonadi backup > Another issue is also related to MySQL. Since MySQL/InnoDB is used as an > Akonadi backend, it troubles me how to properly backup user profiles in a > multi-user setup. Right now I'm just backing up the users homedirs which > covers most personal data and applicatin profiles, but with InnoDB this > becomes > difficult w/o LVM Snapshots (which aren't available on all systems right now). > How is the akonadi db supposed to be backed up? Or is the information in the > db no vital to akonadi and shouldn't backed up at all? The akonadi > documentation seems to point this way, but I'm not sure.
Well, since akonadi's database is stored in ~/.local, if you backup the whole home dir, akonadi's db should be backed up too. The only problem is that the database is huge; it's at least 100MB (!!!) when it's created for the first time and keeps growing.... (On my university's lab the admins have disabled akonadi just because of that, to save space) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
