Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 11:01 -0400, Dennis Reichel wrote:
> Cron or scheduled within Evolution, automatic data backups would be a
> great feature.

Oops, I missed this in the previous email.

The backup/restore built in the Evolution is very simple and it is done
by a separate binary, which takes some arguments. The binary is
evolution-backup, located in
   /usr/libexec/evolution/
in my Fedora. Evolution calls it as:
   /usr/libexec/evolution/evolution-backup --gui --backup $FILENAME

It closes the evolution before the backup is run, thus be careful. Also
use --help to get more information about the possible arguments.

In any case, as was said in this thread, the backup/restore is meant to
be used rather for movements of the data between computers, or to have
a backup before update, it's not meant to be used for regular backups.
There are better applications for it.
        Bye,
        Milan