Hi Thanks for that I use kbackup on a daily cron And mirror to a usb once a week, So I will stop using the evo backup Cheers Tony On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 11:20 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 12:03 +0100, ard wrote: > > Hi > > re 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 > > Is there a way to automate the evolution backup? There does not appear > > to be a command line option to call via a cron job > > or is it enough to simply tar > > ~/.config/evolution > > ~/.local/share/evolution > > When I use the built in command it takes a very long time - up to 10 > > mins, I know my backups are large - around 1.5G, but a simple tar takes > > a lot less time > > Do *not* use the "Back up Evolution data" menu item to backup > Evolution. That's not what it's for. We've had discussions here about > changing the name but apparently it still misleads people. That option > is intended to be used only when moving your Evolution data to a new > computer (or a new installation if your home directory is going to be > wiped). It also doesn't backup everything, for example spam filters and > some other stuff (the Help document isn't very specific). > > Use a proper backup solution for your home directory. There are many on > Linux which are designed to work with cron if correctly configured. You > should be backing up your home directory anyway (in fact you should > probably be backing up your machine, but that's your call) and this is > definitely the way to do it. > > Note that if you use IMAP, your mails don't need to be backed up as > long as the IMAP server is properly managed. > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list >
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