Hi I wrote a little script to automate backing up my evolution (version 2.0.3-1.2) settings. Essentially the script does this: evolution --force-shutdown tar -cjf /data/backup/YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 ~/.evolution gconftool-2 --shutdown tar -cjf /data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
However recently I was told that I shouldn't save my gconf settings the way I do now. In stead I should use: gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > /data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.xml The result of this command does appear to contain all the relevant keys BUT I can't seem to find how I can restore these keys. What is the command I need to read this file back into gconf? Neither the gconftool-2 manpage nor http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ mention the dump option and the output of isn't very helpful to me... Perhaps gconftool-2 --load=/data/backup/gconf/YYYYMMDD.xml is what I need but how do I specify the directory the keys should be loaded into? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gconftool-2 --help Usage: gconftool-2 [OPTION...] [...] --dump Dump to standard output an XML description of all entries under a directory, recursively. --load=STRING Load from the specified file an XML description of values and set them relative to a directory. TIA -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # debian testing kernel 2.6.8-1-686 i686 512MB RAM # # 14:19:32 up 4 days, 18:06, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.27, 0.18 # _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list
