Thanks John, That's helpful information. My understanding of IMAP is that either the message header or header with message body may be downloaded. For a backup to be most useful, the message body should also be included.
Cron or scheduled within Evolution, automatic data backups would be a great feature. Also, I'd appreciate a notification when message bodies are not available to be backed up and a configuration option to attempt downloading missing bodies for backup. Dennis Reichel On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote: > I checked this recently using evolution 3.16.5 running under Ubutnu > 15.10 beta. Used evolution backup routine (Backup EvolutionData). > Saved backup file to spare partition on my SSD. Then copied the > backup file to a 3 TB Toshiba USB drive. Moved drive over to another > PC running same versions of evolution and OS. Copied contents of USB > drive to Desktop. Restored evolution form the backup file and > checked mail, contacts, etc.(I have evolution set not to check mail > on startup). Everything okay. > > It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule > backups at a certain time each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite > backup. If I could have evolution do this automatically, I would > never lose more than a day's e-mail. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Reichel <den...@reichel.net> > Reply-to: den...@reichel.net > To: Evolution Mailing List <evolution-list@gnome.org> > Subject: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:19:47 -0400 > > What are the best practices for backing up Evolution data? > > Though these are (mostly) general sorts of questions, I'm using > Evolution 3.16.5 on Fedora 22. > > What specifically is backed up when you back up you "Backup Evolution > Data.."? > > What can be done to ensure the entire email base is both downloaded > from the imap servers > and included in the backup archives? > > Are contacts backed up? (including Google Contacts and CardDav > contacts) > > How does this handle accounts that are created by "Gnome's Online > Account service"? > > What happens if this backup is restored on a non-Gnome Linux machine? > > Many Thanks > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
