On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 00:34, Mertens Bram wrote: > Hi, > > I want to write a little script to backup ~/evolution. > I currently tar and compress the entire directory and the resulting > files are about 35MB in size. > > What files can safely be skipped and will result in a considerable > reduction of size? > > All mail-folders contain the following files: > folder-metadata.xml > local-metadata.xml > mbox
You only need the above files, the ones below are generated from the contents of the mbox file if they are missing/out of sync. > mbox.ev-summary > mbox.ibex.index > mbox.ibex.index.data > > I suppose the .xml files are important since they appear to specify the > type of folder. (anyway they're too small too influence the size > considerably) > But do I need any other files than the mbox file? > > TIA > -- > # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #249103 # > # Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) kernel 2.4.18-3 i686 128MB RAM # > # 1:54pm up 4 days, 3:59, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.22, 0.14 # > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
