Backup and Restore Evolution on Ubuntu

sahab — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:15:48 +0000

Evolution Backup

Step 1:

Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2

$gconftool-2 --shutdown $evolution –force-shutdown

Step 2:

Create an archive with the data and configuration files

To completely save the Evolution data and configuration, you need to save the following directories/files:

~/.evolution/
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
~/.gnome2_private/Evolution

The following command will take care of these

$cd

$tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution

Now the file evolution-backup.tar.gz is the backup you want. You can move the data over to another Ubuntu computer if you like, and just un-tar the archive while in your /home/username/ directory to restore it.

Restore

$gconftool-2 --shutdown

$evolution --force-shutdown

$tar xzf evolution-backup.tar.gz

The above command restore your mail, address book, calendar etc

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Backup and Restore Evolution on Ubuntu