[Evolution] Backup and Restore

[Celsun .]

>From: guenther <guenther@rudersport.de>
>To: "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com>
>CC: "Celsun ." <tarcell@hotmail.com>, evolution@lists.ximian.com
>Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backup and Restore
>Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:04:24 +0100
>
>On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:01, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 18:14, Celsun . wrote:
> >
> > > Someone please point me in the right direction or post step-by-step
> > > instructions for backing up and restoring Evolution.
> > >
> > > Following some of the posts on this list I did the following on MDK 
>9.1 to
> > > backup Evo 1.4.5:
> > >
> > > 	evolution --force-shutdown
> > >
> > > 	pruned all indexing files mbox.* in ~/evolution/local/(sub) folders
> > >
> > > 	In ~/evolution 	tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution
> >
> > This seems odd. Which directory were you in when you ran the command
> > "tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution"? Because from what you wrote above
> > it appears that you were in ~/evolution and not in ~. In which case you
> > have made a tarball of the contents of ~/evolution/evolution which is
> > not what you wanted. This is what you should have done:
> >
> > evolution --force-shutdown
> > cd ~
> > find evolution -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
> > tar -cvzf evolution.tar.gz evolution
>
>Ack.

guenther, this doesn't even begin to describe how I felt, when I realized 
all those e-mails, contacts, etc... were gone.   :-(  Even now, I try not to 
think about it.

>Celsun, if you *really* used the command you initially mentioned, you
>are very likely screwed. I am very sorry I have to say that. :-(

On the other hand, a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Darren, now I know how to backup 
and restore Evolution.  :-)

guenther, the parts done correctly on my first attempt were from your posts 
on October 2003 - "Tips on restoring Evolution from backup" and November 
2003 - "Mail folder file locations." Thank you.  The parts that messed me up 
were from posts in late August and early September 2003.  The confusing part 
of those posts was just a plain "cd".  Yes, I'm new to Linux.  :-)  Thanks 
to Darren's "cd ~", now I know they both mean issue the commands from my 
home directory even if I'm already there.  It never occurred to me to post 
what I'd pieced together to see if it was correct.  :-|

Darren, thank you for your immediate replys and the step-by-step 
instructions.  Tried it and it works!!!  It's a shame it was a hard lesson 
learned.   At least once a week, Evolution will be backed up since it's such 
a breeze now.  :-)  lol

>However, as there is no ~/evolution/evolution/ directory, you may be
>lucky, cause this fails with an error like this:
>
>$ tar czvf temp.tar.gz NONEXISTENT
>tar: NONEXISTENT: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>The resulting .tar.gz file is just some bytes large. Check this first.
>Then, see the contents of your .tar.gz file, if you actually have any
>content.

No, it's empty.  :-(

> > > It turned out to be a big mess and even though I saw hundreds of files 
>being
> > > archived, the archive file appears to be empty now. (46B) How and why 
>did
> > > this happen?
>
>You should not have seen any file being archived (the v parameter is for
>verbose, and thus any file archived is displayed while archiving).

Maybe I didn't state the above correctly.  After I typed "tar czvf 
evolution.tar.gz evolution", the screen scrolled real fast displaying the 
files.

>46 Bytes does look empty, though. :-(

Yeah, it does and it is.  :-(   Which I don't understand why after seeing 
all those files scroll by.

>...guenther

Thanks,

Celsun

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