What are the best practices for backing up Evolution data?
Though these are (mostly) general sorts of questions, I'm using
Evolution 3.16.5 on Fedora 22.
What specifically is backed up when you back up you "Backup Evolution
Data.."?
What can be done to ensure the entire email base is both downl
On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 12:19 -0400, Dennis Reichel wrote:
> What are the best practices for backing up Evolution data?
I just back up my home directory. If you want more detail then look at
the Help topic on exporting Evolution data.
> Though these are (mostly) general sorts of questions, I'm usi
each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite backup. If I could have
evolution do this automatically, I would never lose more than a day's e-mail.
John
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From: Dennis Reichel
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Subject: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution
backups at a certain time each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite
> backup. If I could have evolution do this automatically, I would
> never lose more than a day's e-mail.
>
> John
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Dennis Reichel
> Reply-to: den...@reichel.net
> T
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule
> backups at a
> certain time each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite backup. If I
> could have
> evolution do this automatically, I would never lose more than a day's
> e-ma
On 09/08/2015 09:55 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your Evo
> installation to another machine.
If the Evolution developers are reading this I'd like to point out
(again)
>
> If the Evolution developers are reading this I'd like to point out
> (again) that expecting people to remember and use an obscure,
> application-specific backup feature is unrealistic.
I hardly think that a menu item labelled "Backup Evolution Data ..."
under "File" is obscure, nor is it nec
t see the objection to doing what works.
John
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From: Patrick O'Callaghan
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:55:08 +0100
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> It would be a
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:17 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> > intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your
> Evo
> > installation to another machine.
>
> If the Evolution developers are reading this I'd like to point
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 13:28 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> Not all of us are on servers.
Not clear whether you're referring to the mail system or the backup
system, If it's the former, then of course we are all on servers but
not all of them are IMAP, however my point was specifically in relation
Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 00.13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:17 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > > As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> > > intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your
> > Evo
> > > installation to
On Wednesday, 09/09/2015 Andrea Vai wrote:
> I was also wondering about a better name... what about "Export
> Evolution data" and "Import Evolution data"? Despite they would be
> similar to the below "Import..." menu item, I think that they would
> be clearly understood as different things (evo vs
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 11:01 -0400, Dennis Reichel wrote:
> Thanks John,
>
> That's helpful information. My understanding of IMAP is that either
> the message header or header with message body may be downloaded.
> For
> a backup to be most useful, the message body should also be included.
>
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 11:01 -0400, Dennis Reichel wrote:
> Cron or scheduled within Evolution, automatic data backups would be a
> great feature.
Oops, I missed this in the previous email.
The backup/restore built in the Evolution is very simple and it is done
by a separate binary, which takes so
> Not all of us are on servers. Also, my laptop (where mail evo with
> my business-related e-mail) is on 24/7 except when going through
> airport security, etc. The same for my two desktops. I cannot
> afford to loose what I have on the evo on my laptop.
If you are doing periodic backups of y
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 10:25 +0200, Roy Reese wrote:
> On Wednesday, 09/09/2015 Andrea Vai wrote:
> > I was also wondering about a better name... what about "Export
> > Evolution data" and "Import Evolution data"? Despite they would be
> > similar to the below "Import..." menu item, I think that the
> just a little clarification about backing up any remote data
> (including
> IMAP, NNTP, EWS, CalDAV, WebDAV, On The Web, ... basically anything
> what stores its data into ~/.cache), the built in backup doesn't
> store/restore these caches, because that's only a local copy of the
> server data,
Il giorno mar, 08/09/2015 alle 18.21 +0100, Pete Biggs ha scritto:
> >
> > Evolution and Gnome itself are very unhelpful with this by
> spreading
> > necessary information into at least three different directories:
> > .local,
> > .config and gsettings / dconf / gconf / whatever-conf.
> >
> > One
I recently had to install my stuff to a new system.
I am a lazy guy, I just copied my whole /home folder from my backup
disk over the new virgin /home folder and did allow all data to be
merged.
Worked fine for me...
Fedora 22, evolution 3.16.5, firefox and so on...
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Rudolf Künzli
On Wed, 2015-
Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 16.32 +0200, Rudolf Künzli ha scritto:
> I recently had to install my stuff to a new system.
> I am a lazy guy, I just copied my whole /home folder from my backup
> disk over the new virgin /home folder and did allow all data to be
> merged.
> Worked fine for me...
>
Sure, Dario. I just wonder why you're running TB and Evolution on the
same system.
Just curious...
Ciao
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Rudolf Künzli
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 16:41 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 16.32 +0200, Rudolf Künzli ha scritto:
> > I recently had to install my stuff to a new sy
> > Evolution conforms to Gnome standards, because it's a Gnome
> > application. Firefox/Thunderbird aren't Gnome applications - if they
> > were they should store their data according to Gnome guidelines.
>
> Ok, then?
Look, I'm not saying one way or the other is correct. They are
different.
Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 16.47 +0200, Rudolf Künzli ha scritto:
> Sure, Dario. I just wonder why you're running TB and Evolution on the
> same system.
I use Evo for my primary email account POP3, and TB for extra various
IMAP/POP3 accounts, point to email servers of my clients for test only.
Evolution uses different folders for different types of content,
following the XDG Base Specification, which is actually a good thing.
> From this info:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en
> I understand want to copy this folder:
>
> ~/.local/share/evolution
Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 23.58 +0200, Ángel González ha scritto:
> Evolution uses different folders for different types of content,
> following the XDG Base Specification, which is actually a good thing.
Yes, i agree, this is a good thing.
> > From this info:
> > https://help.gnome.org/user
Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2015, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> > It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule
> > backups at a
> > certain time each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite backup. If I
> > could have
> Hoping not to go too far OT, but what's the advantage over rsync in this
> context ?
>
Because it does versioning.
See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (which is what
rsnapshot is based on)
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On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 09:51 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Hoping not to go too far OT, but what's the advantage over rsync in
> > this
> > context ?
> >
>
> Because it does versioning.
>
> See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (which is
> what rsnapshot is based on)
That site
RSnapShot allows you to do incremental backups (using hardlinks) vs
Rsync which you would have to script to do what rsnapshot does.
Honestly, if you don't care for point-in-time backups, then just use
rsync. I use them both on a case-by-case basis.
On 09/13/15 11:19, Tom wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den
the partition sda5 is new installed and empty
Now I can safely implement any tips from you.
Regards at all
Ralph
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