Re: [Evolution] Evo: backing up & restoring to new machine

[John Schmidt <jschmidt amis com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 14:47, Craig A. Adams wrote:
> Hi Melissa,
>
> I do this on a regular basis with 1.4.x as I often need to take my mail
> to a different machine on a separate network.
>
> I backup (tar.gz) the entire /home/<user>/evolution folder and the
> /home/<user>/.gnome2_private/Evolution file and then put this on the
> media (CD or Memory Stick).
>
> If the PC you are moving to has not been setup for Evolution, just
> restore the files to the same location.
>
> If it is already setup, just restore the /home/user/evolution/local
> folder or sub-folders which contain the actual data stores.
>
> The problem with this process is that it is limited to 8 accounts, any
> further account details are lost. Anyone else have an answer for me as
> to why?

I just copied (rsync, actually) my data to a new computer.  All my folders made it ok but it seems that my settings didn't make it.

I rsync'd   ~/evolution,   ~/.gconf/apps/evolution,   and  ~/gnome2_private/Evolution  to my new computer.  Did I miss something?

John