Re: [Evolution] Backup contacts only

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 14:37 + 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?) > Well, and to actually answer you question. Contacts are saved in your evolution folder in the subd

Re: [Evolution] Backup contacts only

2009-11-20 Thread Steve T
Dianne, If you're running with Linux you may want to try rsync - it is a file copier that only copies changes. I tend to use it for all the evolution backups. I don't have a huge .evolution folder (2.7Gb) and it takes a few minutes to back it up (actually I back up my complete 'home' directory). Th

Re: [Evolution] Backup contacts only, small correction

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
If you are actually using the script, modify it to use the evolution binary on your machine, since I use a custom installation in /opt/evo!! So, change the line which says: "/opt/evo/bin/evolution" to just "evolution" or where ever your evolution binary is. Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 19:00 +0100

Re: [Evolution] Backup contacts only

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
Dianne, Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 14:37 + 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 archiv

[Evolution] Backup contacts only

2009-11-20 Thread Dianne Reuby
Is it possible to backup just my contacts, rather than a full backup? (Perhaps by manually copying files to the backup location?) TIA Dianne ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list