[Evolution] Moving settings between computers

[Des Dougan]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:18 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > You will need to stop Evolution backend tasks and the GConf daemon
> > before copying your data. On *both* machines (syncing the data to disk
> > on the source machine and not using old data on target machine):
> > 
> > $ evolution --force-shutdown
> > $ gconftools-2 --shutdown
> 
> This is a valuable tip... but... what are you supposed to do if you have
> to copy 10,000's of users from one NFS server to another, and you don't
> have access to all of the NFS clients, and no reliable way of getting in
> touch with all of the users?

How about bringing the server up in single-user mode, or at run level 3
if that's not feasible, so that no X services will be running?

Des
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