You should use gconftool-2 --dump xxxxx rather than shutting down gconf and backing up the files - in some versions of gconfd, the file locations changed.

There is also .gnome2_private/Evolution for any saved passwords.


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:59 -0500, Celsun . wrote:
Hi,

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

======
BACKUP
======
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


=======
RESTORE
=======
evolution --force-shutdown

gconftool-2 --shutdown

cd ~

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

Thanks,

Celsun


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