W liście z wto, 07-09-2004, godz. 05:44, András Keszei pisze: > With copying the mail, I'd watch out. > Here's my crash and burn story. > Around a year ago I managed to get my wife to switch to linux from > you-know-what, and all was fine until I decided to do a backup and > istall Mdk10.0 from scratch. With evolution and mbox format, I know > copying to be a quick and elegant solution. So I did the copy thing > with the ~/Mail directory, and though it had some error messages about > some files, most of the things went through OK. > Apparently not. I think everything was in maildir format, which doesn't > like to be dragged and dropped (who does?). All in all I lost over half > a year's worth of her email, setting back my other half's trust in linux > by a century. > I did a bit of experimenting aferwards, and if I wrapped up ~/Mail in a > tar.gz, and unpacked it all after the install, nothing was lost. > The moral of the story: if backing up, make sure the backup is > successful before deleting the original. > cheers > Andras
Strange things can happen. I had no problems with copying mail to my backup partition and reinstalling MDK. I have even manually copied files from KMail to Evolution (maildir format) with no problems at all. Nevertheless it's a good advice. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User No. 362185 <http://counter.li.org> GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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