Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tuesday 10 August 2010 22:51:29 Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. Isn't that what Backup Settings in the File menu does? On debian at least, this is a plugin. Not sure what package its in. Don't think this is built into evolution itself. I have it, and have added no plugins. (Lenny) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008290740.06253.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John The File - Backup Settings / Restore Settings option does exactly what you need. It's been there for several years now. I've used it several times. Just 2 weeks ago I changed from Lenny to Squeeze and all my Evolution stuff migrated along with me: on original system: -- File/Backup Settings on new system: -- File/Restore Settings It works just fine. cheers jmf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281514336.2444.3.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt
Re: Evolution Backup ??
When the plugin isn't available, you can manually backup evolution: Step 1: Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2: $gconftool-2 --shutdown $evolution --force-shutdown Step 2: Create an archive with the data and configuration files: Note: To completely save the Evolution data and configuration, you need to save the following directories/files: ~/.evolution/ ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution The following command will take care of these $cd $tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution Now the file evolution-backup.tar.gz is the backup you want. You can move the data over to another Ubuntu computer if you like, and just un-tar the archive while in your /home/username/ directory to restore it. To restore, use: $gconftool-2 --shutdown $evolution --force-shutdown $tar xzf evolution-backup.tar.gz $gconftool-2 --unload evolution_setting.xml $gconftool-2 --load evolution_setting.xml http://tuxtraining.com/2008/10/18/how-to-backup-evolution -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik4txosnt-xdo-5rzxfvtokcryvwtjusrgsz...@mail.gmail.com
Evolution Backup ??
Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281473062.13686.2.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.info
Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tuesday 10 August 2010 12:44:22 John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John Not sure if Evolution has anything built in, but, you can 'always' backup a directory to restore later, ie '.evolution'. I use rsync + cron to backup stuff. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008101347.25190.gomadtr...@gci.net
Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. Isn't that what Backup Settings in the File menu does? -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281476883.4212.2.ca...@computer2.home
Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. Isn't that what Backup Settings in the File menu does? On debian at least, this is a plugin. Not sure what package its in. Don't think this is built into evolution itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimwuchtu74e78zwzjbbtrces3hsbl-pzmazd...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Evolution Backup ??
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 16:51 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. Isn't that what Backup Settings in the File menu does? On debian at least, this is a plugin. Not sure what package its in. Don't think this is built into evolution itself. Ah, I didn't realise it wasn't built in. Anyway, all it seems to do is zip up ~/.evolution and ~/.camel_certs (which a normal backup of a home directory would include anyway ;-) -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281478212.4428.5.ca...@computer2.home
