Backing up Evolution

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Nov 3 23:27:43 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 17:15 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:44 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > Hey, all,
> > 
> > Is there a clean and simple way to back up Evolution settings?
> > Everything from files and folders to account settings and passwords.
> > This is the one thing that gets very messy when I have to reinstall my
> > system (for RC5, for example), and it's going to happen again on FC3
> > release.
> > 
> > If I could just back up/restore this one app cleanly, everything else
> > falls into place easily. Is there any such application (or even set of
> > instructions)?
> 
> tar zcvf evol-back.tar.gz ~/.evolution

You should also save the relevant GConf settings, below /apps/evolution

gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some_file.xml

(this is where your account data and preferences are stored)

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> 




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