How was your Back-up made? from withing Evolution, or just a copy of the folder?
personally, I use the internal back-up in Evolution to one file as extra, and use rsync to an external drive. Actually I do hat for my complete /home folder except my virtual machines. I run that every day, it will only add, change or delete the changes after you have it executed once.It works really fast and has saved me few times. I do this for my system partition too, and recovered not so long ago my full system from it after my hard drive just died (not even spinning or posting) In less than 3 hrs My system was exact as it was before, including settings (restoring the 200 gb of data, took more time than the actual recovery) I know you can use disk image systems, but I like to have full control over my data and able to see my backup data as it is. with the cost of hard drives today, I don't need a compression and rather have a native copy of the file available with all the permission settings kept in tact. >> rsync does that for you. ex. sudo rsync -avuE --del --progress --exclude='.gvfs' --exclude='temp' --exclude='.VirtualBox' /home/username/. /media/archivemountpoint/ (username , your login user name, home folder) if you are interested on simulating the archive options from outlook in evolution, I've posted a blog that seems to work very well for me, and keeps my database pretty lean. and will secure older data. http://itchalkboard.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/archive-e-mails-in-evolution-ubuntu-8-049-04/ greetings, M.Kojak.S -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net> To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:35:01 -0700 One of my important folders <Phred>, containing about 4000 messages, was moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in <Phred> were deleted. The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hide Deleted Messages" does not show them. Fortunately I have a backup of my entire system as of just before this disaster. Is there some way to restore the contents of just this folder, or (better) to merge in messages from the backup into the current folder collection? This may possibly be related to some maintenance I did on evolution just before this happened, namely emptying the trash (File->Empty Trash) and vacuuming the database (as shown at the bottom). I am about to take a brief look to see if any other folders have been similarly damaged. All my messages are on a local drive. Any help much appreciated - jon ========> vacuuming the database <======== cd ~/.evolution/mail/ for i in `find . -name folders.db` do ls -lh $i echo "Rebuilding Table $i" sqlite3 $i "vacuum;" ls -lh $i echo done _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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