I want to backup the entire .evolution folder. This way I can have a full backup of everything. Mail, contacts and calender. Evolution has a backup utility that puts the .evolution folder into a tar.gz but there is no way to do this in a schedule.
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:44 +0100, Peter Goodall wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 02:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if I could backup evolution every time I close it. It > > would be good because I experiment a lot with my computer and I wont > > have to worry if evolution is backed up fully and synced with ubuntu > > one. At the moment I cant find any plugin or setting in evolution to do > > an auto backup but I can do it manually. I was just wondering if its > > possible without having to write a plugin to do it. > > > > What exactly do you want to backup? If you use IMAP for mail you don't > have to worry about backing that up as it all resides on the server > anyway. POP of course is going to be large to upload. If you want to > backup your contacts you can create an address book of type "couchdb" > and it syncs to the ubuntuone service. Finally, if you want to ensure > your settings are saved you could sync ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ and a > few xml files in your ~/.evolution directory (i.e > ~/.evolution/mail/filters.xml) to UbuntuOne. For the sync you could use > conduit. > > I know this is very round about, but most importantly (and back to my > original question), what do you want to sync? > > - Pete > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
