On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 19:23, D. D. Brierton wrote: > What media are you planning to back up to? Let's assume you have some > disk partition or something already mounted on your system. Then all you > have to do is this: > > evolution --force-shutdown > tar -cjvf /path/to/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution > ~/.gconf/apps/evolution > > To restore, do this: > > evolution --force-shutdown > cd ~ > tar -xjvf /path/tp/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2 > Best, Darren
I also have accumulated a large number of cache folders under ~/evolution/mail/pop and pop3, which I assume can be safely cleared before backing up? Steve -- Steven Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 102798975 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
