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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to backup the entire .evolution folder. This way I can have a
full backup of everything. Mail, contacts and calender. Evolution has a
backup utility that puts the .evolution folder into a tar.gz but there
is no way to do this in a schedule.  

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:44 +0100, Peter Goodall wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 02:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if I could backup evolution every time I close it. It
> > would be good because I experiment a lot with my computer and I wont
> > have to worry if evolution is backed up fully and synced with ubuntu
> > one. At the moment I cant find any plugin or setting in evolution to do
> > an auto backup but I can do it manually. I was just wondering if its
> > possible without having to write a plugin to do it. 
> > 
> 
> What exactly do you want to backup?  If you use IMAP for mail you don't
> have to worry about backing that up as it all resides on the server
> anyway.  POP of course is going to be large to upload.  If you want to
> backup your contacts you can create an address book of type "couchdb"
> and it syncs to the ubuntuone service.  Finally, if you want to ensure
> your settings are saved you could sync ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ and a
> few xml files in your ~/.evolution directory (i.e
> ~/.evolution/mail/filters.xml) to UbuntuOne.  For the sync you could use
> conduit.
> 
> I know this is very round about, but most importantly (and back to my
> original question), what do you want to sync? 
> 
> - Pete
> 
>