On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 10:51, Steve Chaney wrote: > I could be asking a dumb or previously asked question, but... > > Is it possible to: > a) automate (within Evolution) the process of backing up one's settings > and email and vfolders, etc., etc., into a file which evolution can auto > recover lost data if needed be? (I do this already, manually, with > scripts. I'm just theenking of the less savvy user.)
this is most easily done with cron. Just write a script to copy ~/evolution to another location. > > b) compress the mail files and whatnot, with gzip or bzip2, so as to > save up on disk space? Then uncompress on the fly during file-read? > (Would this constantly and forever eat up cpu power/time or RAM?) No, but I suppose it could be written. Not really sure how bad performance would be, probably extremely bad on mbox formatted mailboxes but might not be so bad with Maildir? Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
