I believe I have found a procedure to follow to do a migration/merge of data from a backup.tar.gz file from the old 2.24.5 version to the newer 3.4.3 version.
The key piece of info that I needed was the format of the two different versions. Since I was only really using evolution as a mail system I could ignore most of the other files. I was only really interested in extracting the mail messages from the old version and saving them. Meanwhile I had started to use 3.4.3 so I had msgs that I did not want to lose so a full restore was out of the question. And the project became a merge of data from the old into the newer version. As I said before the prospect of upgrading the version on the dying machine was not available. I am in the process of writing a summary/procedure of what I did and how it works so that it can be done by those who suffer from the same problem I encountered. I will post those notes to this mailing list. I warn it is a bit long. But I hope it would help some. Thanks to those that responded and provided me the info needed to learn what I learned. Thanks, Brian Anderson On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:52 -0600, Brian A Anderson wrote: > How do I migrate from one machine running Evolution 2.24.5 to another > machine running Evolution 3.4.3. > > Please note that the older machine (running 2.24.5) is dying a slow > hardware death. > > I tried backup on old machine and restore on new machine. > No go. It appears that the data is totally different in organization. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
