[DC LoCo] Tar of a "dot" directory

[Kevin Cole]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 18:43, Marti Martinson
<arthur.martinson at verizon.net> wrote:
> Unless I am getting this wrong, all my Evolution email app personal
> files reside in a "dot" directory in MY home directory.
>
> If I did the following:
>
> tar cvfp mail.tar .evolution/*
>
> .....would ALL of the stuff beneath recursively save to the mail.tar tar
> file so I could restore it later AND have Ecolution work?

P.P.S. "Yes it will recursively save."  As to the later regarding
Evolution's ability to work with the unpacked result, your mileage may
vary, contents may settle in shipping, not valid where invalid, etc,
etc.