Someone please point me in the right direction or post step-by-step instructions for backing up and restoring Evolution.
Following some of the posts on this list I did the following on MDK 9.1 to backup Evo 1.4.5:
evolution --force-shutdown
pruned all indexing files mbox.* in ~/evolution/local/(sub) folders
In ~/evolution tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution
this did create the archive and I moved it to a FAT partition on another hard drive
copied ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ to another hard drive
Restore to a fresh install of Evo 1.4.5, on a fresh install of MDK, before running it the first time
Moved evolution.tar.gz into ~/evolution from the other hard drive
tar xzvf evolution.tar.gz
Nothing happened � after trying it a couple of times it created ~/evolution/~/evolution or something like that
Copied ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ back
It turned out to be a big mess and even though I saw hundreds of files being archived, the archive file appears to be empty now. (46B) How and why did this happen?
Unfortunately, evolution was not backed up so I've lost over a year's worth of e-mails.
What is the correct procedure to backup and restore Evo?
Now would be a good time to practice backup, archive, and restore, since I'm starting over with very few e-mails.
TIA,
Celsun
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