On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 09:24 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote: > There appears to be much confusion on how to do this for those who > are not on > servers. > I use my laptop for evolution (3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04). I > also have > a desktop with same version of evolution and same OS. > Home directories of both PC as well as other partitions on each SSD > are backed > up remotely to SpiderOak. > I regularly backup evolution using the backup function and store the > backups on > a SSD partition that is only for data files. In other words, I can > reinstall > Ubuntu and not have to worry about overwriting evolution back up > files. [etc.]
Good practice is to keep one's home directory on a separate partition (for system updates) and back it up every night with an automatic system (cron script usually). Your method seems rather manual and thus error-prone. However the requirements of backup and those of synchronization between multiple clients are not the same. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a whole bunch of email clients on different platforms accessing the same email accounts. I definitely don't want to have to remember to turn each of them off and transfer all my email to a different one before using it. That's what servers are for. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
