Backing up Evolution e-mail messages

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Wed May 16 12:10:49 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:43 -0700, Michael A Peters wrote:

> 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.

Or you could just copy /home/$user/.evolution/mail/local folder or
contents within and there you go.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY




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