Am Donnerstag, den 27.01.2011, 11:12 -0600 schrieb Leonard Evens: > I have a couple of shell scripts which I run to backup my files. Right > now I do something rather complicated to backup evolution. > > Can I just use the evolution command in these scripts to do the backup > directly? Where do I find out about this. evolution doesn't have > a man page and > evolution -h > didn't help much.
I use the following bash script to do incremental backups of my evolution data, version 2.28, that is. It uses the incremental backup feature of GNU tar. You have to modify it for version 2.32, since data is now stored in different places, like ~/.local/share/evolution and ~/.config/evolution. See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629972. #### begin of mybackup-evolution-increm.sh ##### #! /bin/bash media_path=$1 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" i=0 while [ $i ] ; do archive=$media_path/evolution-$i.tar.gz if [ ! -f $archive ] ; then echo Creating $archive cd $HOME && tar chf - .evolution -g .tar-g-evolution | gzip > $archive break; else let i=i+1 fi done #### end of mybackup-evolution-increm.sh ##### -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
