Evolution Mail

[frank]

Some time ago i got this email as answer to this question: "Evolution
backup", i hope is what you need.
Francesco

> To perform a full, sane backup of Evolution 2:
>
> Open a terminal and issue the following commands to shutdown the
> processes:
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> evolution-2.0 --force-shutdown
>
> Then you need to backup the following directories in your home
> directory:
>
> .evolution
> .gconf/apps/evolution
>
> and also the following file:
>
> .gnome2_private/Evolution
> 
> I would recommend a command like this (line may wrap):
> tar -cvzf
> backupname.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution
>
> In order to restore you should also shutdown the processes first.
>
> Regards
>
> Craig A.