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.)
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BACKUP
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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
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RESTORE
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evolution --force-shutdown
gconftool-2 --shutdown
cd ~
tar -xvzf /path/to/evolution.tar.gz
Thanks,
Celsun
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