[Evolution] Backing up.

[Steven Tryon]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 19:23, D. D. Brierton wrote:

> What media are you planning to back up to? Let's assume you have some
> disk partition or something already mounted on your system. Then all you
> have to do is this:
> 
> evolution --force-shutdown
> tar -cjvf /path/to/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2 ~/evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> 
> To restore, do this:
> 
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~
> tar -xjvf /path/tp/backup/mountpoint/evolution.tar.bz2
> Best, Darren

I also have accumulated a large number of cache folders under
~/evolution/mail/pop and pop3, which I assume can be safely cleared
before backing up?

Steve
-- 
Steven Tryon
stryon@rochester.rr.com
ICQ 102798975