On Monday 06 September 2004 22:44, AndrÃs Keszei wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:32, Thereidos wrote: > > W liÅcie z pon, 06-09-2004, godz. 16:37, Marc Hultquist pisze: > > > Does anyone know how to backup mail when using kontact as your > > > general purpose mail client, I can see a import option, but as > > > far as exporting I can't see anything, and I have mail that I > > > _have_ to keep :\ > > > > > > Kind Regards > > > > All your mail is kept in ~/.Mail directory. Depending on option > > you've chosen its mbox or maildir format. > > You can just copy the directory to wherever you wish to backup and > > copy in back afterwards. > > Contacts are kept somewhere in ~/.kde directory. > > With copying the mail, I'd watch out. > Here's my crash and burn story. > Around a year ago I managed to get my wife to switch to linux from > you-know-what, and all was fine until I decided to do a backup and > istall Mdk10.0 from scratch. With evolution and mbox format, I know > copying to be a quick and elegant solution. So I did the copy thing > with the ~/Mail directory, and though it had some error messages > about some files, most of the things went through OK. > Apparently not. I think everything was in maildir format, which > doesn't like to be dragged and dropped (who does?). All in all I > lost over half a year's worth of her email, setting back my other > half's trust in linux by a century. > I did a bit of experimenting aferwards, and if I wrapped up ~/Mail in > a tar.gz, and unpacked it all after the install, nothing was lost. > The moral of the story: if backing up, make sure the backup is > successful before deleting the original. > cheers > Andras Excellent advice. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org
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