evolution backup

Hi there on the list, can anyone tell me how to back evolution up. I'm wanting to do a fresh install of SuSE 10 curently running 9.1 and I can't copy all of the files. I have tried gconftool-2 shutdown evolution --force-shutdown tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution and get error messages (the files that are important to me can't be copied) I can however cp evolution to another directory in my home , but when I try to cp it to another drive I again get the error messages I've mailed the evolution list 2 times but my mails haven't been posted there Thanks ind advance Paul Ryan