On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 10:17 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote: > If Evolution hasn't yet, just sit down and document all of the file > locations and DConf / GSettings keys.
As already pointed out, push F1 and Ctrl+F, then search for "back" and you'll get "Back up and restore" It mentions that you anyway need to backup bogofilter and spamassasin directories separately, which make sense, since they are shared by several apps. I for example use bogofilter with Claws and Evolution. On the bottom there is a link to "Data storage locations This is only interesting for advanced users who want to debug problems. Evolution 3.6 and later stores its data according to the XDG Base Directory Specification. By default this means: The user's data files $HOME/.local/share/evolution Various configuration and state files $HOME/.config/evolution Account settings $HOME/.config/evolution/sources Disposable data caches $HOME/.cache/evolution Configuration settings in GSettings $HOME/.config/dconf" A backup of .cache isn't needed. I'm neither a fan of dconf, nor do I use gesettings, but it has got a help option and a man page, if you really want to 'get' the values. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-schemas | grep evolution org.gnome.evolution.shell org.gnome.evolution.plugin.face-picture [snip] org.gnome.evolution.mail [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.evolution.mail composer-magic-smileys composer-use-outbox [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail composer-magic-smileys false My backup strategy is to backup /home completely, using cp -pr or cp -a, resp. tar or tar -xattrs. I don't know if attributes are really important, restoring from backups that didn't care for attributes never caused an issue for me. Since I'm using a rolling release I don't have to mess about distro releases. You could use rsync or what ever else, but IMO it makes sense to copy the complete home directory. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list