Backing up Evolution e-mail messages

[Joachim Backes]

Michael A Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:15 +1000, John Bradley wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Could someone please tell me how to backup / copy all my e-mail messages
>> to an external USB hard drive?
>>
>> I'm running Evolution 2.8.3 on FC6.
>>
>> No doubt it's probably really easy to do if I spent a bit of time doing
>> some research, I just don't have the luxury of time right now so would
>> some kind FC user please oblige?

The same problem for thunderbird!

> 
> Use rsync to sync your user evolution directory to the hard drive - but
> the first sync will take a long time.
> 
> There really should be a way to do it from within evolution. That's a
> good feature request.
> 
> another option is to use tar - but tar will take a long time because of
> the file database (LOTS of tiny files). rsync will too the first time,
> but should be better performance wise with subsequent syncs.
> 


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