On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 11:51 -0500, c. marlow wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 11:49 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > I would possibly go as far as to say that that particular > > > > functionality > > > > has run its course and could be consigned to the big bit-bucket > > > > in > > > > the > > > > sky. > > SEVERELY DISAGREE... I'd go back to Claws if the backup / restore > feature was removed from Evo.
What about if there was an external program - say something called 'evolution-backup' - that you could run to do a backup. Is it absolutely necessary to have it as a menu item? > > Even though I fully use IMAP now with Fastmail, I still use the > Backup / Restore feature to restore the years of emails I have stored > under " Saved on this computer" I think is what it says.. Also, the > backup and restore feature, restores not only my email but my account > information too, to where when the restore is done, all I have to do > is input my passwords and boom! I am back up and running in like 10 > sec. There's nothing magical about the Evolution backup. It is just a gzip tar file of .local/share/evolution (for the mail files) and .config/evolution (for the configuration). In the past, when the config was stored in dconf, it was a bit more complicated since the dconf keys needed to be dumped and then backed up. But now everything is stored in .config/evolution. That's also why a much better way of dealing with backups is to use standard backup procedures with versioning and so on - then just restore the two directories from the nightly backups like anything else you need to recover. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
