Re: [Evolution] Corrupted backup TAR archives

2013-02-11 Thread portsample
Wow- that is pretty slick! I think this will solve my problem. Thank you for the response. > > If you really just want to transfer mail then: > > 1.) Create a new "maildir" account to some local folder. > 2.) Drag-n-drop the messages from wherever they are to that new account. > 3.) Backup that

Re: [Evolution] Corrupted backup TAR archives

2013-02-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 20:41 -0900, portsample wrote: > Curiously, the installation that I'm trying to pull the backups from can > read and search the 2003 - 2013 emails with no problem. > I'd really like to do a complete backup of my 2003-2013 emails for > migration to a new machine at some point.

Re: [Evolution] Corrupted backup TAR archives

2013-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> Recently, I've noticed that my Evolution backups (Evo v.3.2.3, openSuse > 12.1) have been varying in sizes, (6.9GB-8.3GB) and the produced > archives have been reported as corrupt when I've tried to expand them > into a new account. Are you short of disk space or something like that? There's a

[Evolution] Corrupted backup TAR archives

2013-02-10 Thread portsample
Recently, I've noticed that my Evolution backups (Evo v.3.2.3, openSuse 12.1) have been varying in sizes, (6.9GB-8.3GB) and the produced archives have been reported as corrupt when I've tried to expand them into a new account. I have also tried importing /home/user/.local/share/evolution/mail/loca