Hit at all Hi John and wow this is the first useful information I also have never heard of SpiderOak but read at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderOak.ak. This really is very interesting many thanks
Best regards Ralph ---- John Lauterbach <[email protected]> schrieb: > 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. > These > data partitions are also backed up on SpiderOak. Before doing backups make > sure evolution is set to NOT retrieve e-mails when first opened. > I also regularly move an evolution backup file to one of my desktop PCs. My > evolution backup files are about 5.6 GB in size so I copy the backup file to > a > Western Digital Passport drive (500 GB). I then move the Passport drive to > the > desktop PC and copy the backup file to the SSD on the desktop PC. I generally > place in the Desktop folder, but that is arbitrary choice on my part. I then > restore evolution to the desktop PC. Again, evolution on desktop had been > set > previously NOT to retrieve e-mail when it is opened. Once the restore is > complete I visually check to see that important mail folders are still intact. > I have used this procedure for almost a year now, and the only problems I > have > had are when the copy to/from Passport drive does not run correctly. > Thank you for reading. Please critique. > John _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
