On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Personally, I don't back up Evolution explicitly. I do back up my home > directory every night (using rsnapshot) but this almost always happens > while my session is logged in. I have been doing this for years and > have never lost an email. I probably also helps that my accounts are > IMAP-based, so what's in the local Evolution store is mostly cached > information. > > So it's not clear to me that stopping Evo during a backup is actually > necessary.
Even if you would use POP accounts and Evolution would automatically download messages during the backup, it shouldn't matter. I'm using POP accounts, but I make backups of whole Linux installs, not just of Evolution or of a /home folder. I restart the computer and boot into another Linux, to backup installs that aren't running, either via 'cp -ai' or usually by 'tar --xattrs -czf' and FWIW I 'dd' MBRs. FreeBSD allows to backup a running install by the 'dump' command. Actually I restored broken Linux installs from backups heaps of times, _always_ being successfully. I can't comment on FreeBSD, since I dropped it. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
