Re: [Evolution] Speed of restore - Evolution 3.2.3

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 11:25 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 15:29 +0000, Steve T wrote:
> > I thought it was the suggested was of migration between disparate
> > releases?
> > If I want to move an 'x' Evolution release to say a 'y' release, what
> > way would there
> > be of doing it without backup/restore? 
>
> You need only upgrade your Evolution package, and any necessary data
> migration will be handled automatically on the next start.
>
> "yum upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" (depending on your distro) is
> sufficient.  Or, if upgrading your whole system from installation media,
> choosing a non-destructive upgrade option is sufficient.
>
> We have never recommended the Back/Restore tool as an upgrade solution.
>
> Matthew Barnes
OK, I must have misunderstood what was being said. I thought I had seen backup/restore mentioned in conjunction with upgrading, and I can find this: http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/index.html.en#data-migration-and-sync
...that  appears to link backup/restore with migrating and synch'ing (which is what I'm doing)...but I don't think it was that that I read before. I thought I had read it in some FAQ somewhere.

I would have thought that a specific Evolution backup/restore is a good thing. It gives a single file that can be ported, rather than having to know where Evolution stores it's data.