On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:40 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > This query is not urgent, but I would like to know. > > > > Does evolution-backup-tar.gz contain the contents of my mail, contacts, > > tasks etc. or just the settings? > > Yes, it saves the mail (the local mail that is). > > > Help manual says, "The back up saves your Evolution gconf settings, > > mails, contacts, tasks, memos and calendars and creates an archive." > > which can be interpreted a bit ambiguously. > > I don't see the ambiguity. > Having been told that it only saves the settings, the sentence *could* read that only the settings for mail, settings for contacts, settings for tasks etc. are backed up. I admit I didn't read it that way at first.
> > I have had advice that indicates that just the settings are saved, > > however when I restored the other day I got most but not all of my > > content data back. e.g. missing one contact list/addresses and about 10 > > emails. > > It's trivial to test. Create a backup and do: > > tar tvf backup.tar.gz > > to get a list of what's there. You are right. But having started to double think myself and not being certain what each and every file type represented I thought I would double check. -- Regards Bill Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
