On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 19:20 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Currently it backs up .local/share/evolution, > > which gives me a 500 MB file, and takes a little over 6 minutes. > I'm afraid what you think you need backed up is > insufficient. There's an in-app help that details the data locations > for your version:
As mentioned, I will be changing what gets backed up. > Help -> Contents -> Common other Questions -> Data storage locations > What you are backing up is just the data files, not the configuration > and settings. They are, however, easily restored by deleting all Evolution-related data and following the 'wizard', right? > > I don't keep every backup. I keep 7 days worth, and on the 7th day, > > I copy that one to the weekly directory, and the same for the > > monthly, and keep only 4 monthlies. > Have you tried restoring your backups to a clean system to make sure > what you are backing up is useful? Yes. I had a large number of emails that I converted from Pegasus Mail to maildir (mbox) format, plus another few weeks of new emails, and when I had a disk crash, I had to reinstall MATE, re-configured Evolution when I ran it, then restored from that backup. Worked just fine. > >I don't use Calendar, Tasks, or Memos. > If you don't use them, they won't take up any space in your backups. I'll check that out. > > > I just use my normal nightly system backup. There's no need for a > > > separate utility for Evolution. > > I consider my Evolution backup to be one of my normal nightly > > backups. > Sure, so do it properly. Use the utility for backing up Evolution, > at least then you know you will capture everything you need in a > restorable state. Properly, to me, using the built-in backup, would be to not getting a requester asking me if I want to shut it down, which is not suitable for automated backup. If I had a way to, within a bash script, use the built-in utility, I would consider it. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
