If you are actually using the script, modify it to use the evolution binary on your machine, since I use a custom installation in /opt/evo!! So, change the line which says: "/opt/evo/bin/evolution" to just "evolution" or where ever your evolution binary is. Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 19:00 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: > Dianne, > > Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 14:37 +0000 schrieb Dianne Reuby: > > Is it possible to backup just my contacts, rather than a full backup? > > (Perhaps by manually copying files to the backup location?) > > > > You are lucky, Dianne. Just a few days ago, I figured it is somewhat > inefficient to archive the whole .evolution folder to my usb stick every > day. So I wrote a little script which uses GNU tar to do an incremental > backup, see below. Of course, it's necessary to do this from a terminal. > I hope, you are familiar with that. > > So first I would do: > > mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-0.tar.gz ## 0-level > backup, i.e. everything > next time: > mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-1.tar.gz ## level-1 > mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-2.tar.gz ## level-2 > ... and so on > > ######################################################## > ### Do incremental backups of your .evolution folder > #! /bin/bash > > echo "Shutting down evolution" > /opt/evo/bin/evolution --force-shutdown > > echo "Backing up gnome configuration for /apps/evolution" > gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > > /home/tom/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml > > echo "Creating incremental backup" > if [ -f "$1" ] ; then echo "File exists, please choose different > name" ; exit 1; fi > cd $HOME && tar chf - .evolution -g .tar-g-evolution | gzip > $1 > > ######################################################## > > See also: > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Incremental-Dumps.html > > >
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