Dianne, Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 14:37 +0000 schrieb Dianne Reuby: > Is it possible to backup just my contacts, rather than a full backup? > (Perhaps by manually copying files to the backup location?) >
You are lucky, Dianne. Just a few days ago, I figured it is somewhat inefficient to archive the whole .evolution folder to my usb stick every day. So I wrote a little script which uses GNU tar to do an incremental backup, see below. Of course, it's necessary to do this from a terminal. I hope, you are familiar with that. So first I would do: mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-0.tar.gz ## 0-level backup, i.e. everything next time: mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-1.tar.gz ## level-1 mybackup-evolution-increm.sh /media/disk/evolution-2.tar.gz ## level-2 ... and so on ######################################################## ### Do incremental backups of your .evolution folder #! /bin/bash echo "Shutting down evolution" /opt/evo/bin/evolution --force-shutdown echo "Backing up gnome configuration for /apps/evolution" gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > /home/tom/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml echo "Creating incremental backup" if [ -f "$1" ] ; then echo "File exists, please choose different name" ; exit 1; fi cd $HOME && tar chf - .evolution -g .tar-g-evolution | gzip > $1 ######################################################## See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Incremental-Dumps.html -- thomas _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
