Evolution archiving.

nodata ubuntu at nodata.co.uk
Fri Apr 28 09:20:09 UTC 2006


> Is there an automated way to archive messages older than a certain span
> in Evolution so I don't wind up backing up literally gigabytes of email
> every differential or incremental backup?  I'd like to be able to
> archive all messages over six months in age, say, into a separate
> location and do that once a month (in sync with my full backups) so that
> my daily differentials don't amount to an extra two gigabytes each time.
>
> --
> Michael T. Richter

It sounds like your backup software needs to be better at backing up big
changed files.

Most software looks at time stamps and file sizes, other software backs up
differences in individual files. This would be more appropriate for your
mailbox. Anyway..

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246747




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