[Evolution] Back up and restore procedures

Celsun . tarcell@hotmail.com
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:59:27 -0500


Hi,

What alterations are needed to use the following to back up and restore Evo 
2.x.x? (/.evolution being one.)

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BACKUP
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evolution --force-shutdown

gconftool-2 --shutdwon

cd ~

find ~/evolution/local/ -name "mbox.*" -exec rm -f {} \;

tar -cvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz evolution .gconf/apps/evolution


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RESTORE
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evolution --force-shutdown

gconftool-2 --shutdown

cd ~

tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz

Thanks,

Celsun