Re: [opensuse] How to backup Evolution?
----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have, in the past, simply copied the entire contents of my home directory. This worked fine when upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3. However, right now, my home directory is corrupted in some strange way that forces a totally blank screen after login. I've tried deleting the .gnome2 directory and letting the system rebuild intelligent defaults, but that didn't fix it. So, combined with a lot of troubles with 64 bit, I'm going to take the fresh install route.
I assume you can still logon in runlevel 3
So, the question is, precisely which directories and files must I back up in order to have a full backup of my Evolution (while, hopefully, leaving behind whatever has become poisoned)?
~/.evolution (slight chance it's ~/.Evolution... I don't have a copy in front of me) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I could login as any other user, for that matter. Anyway, it's all happy and running 32 bit now. Much, much smoother, easier, and all manner of things that were causing trouble are now behaving (Java, Flash, and Eclipse to start with). Turns out that you need ~/gconf/apps/evolution too, that seems to have directory-type information that makes it all work nicely. Cheers, Simon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 21:00 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have, in the past, simply copied the entire contents of my home directory. This worked fine when upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3. However, right now, my home directory is corrupted in some strange way that forces a totally blank screen after login. I've tried deleting the .gnome2 directory and letting the system rebuild intelligent defaults, but that didn't fix it. So, combined with a lot of troubles with 64 bit, I'm going to take the fresh install route.
I assume you can still logon in runlevel 3
So, the question is, precisely which directories and files must I back up in order to have a full backup of my Evolution (while, hopefully, leaving behind whatever has become poisoned)?
~/.evolution (slight chance it's ~/.Evolution... I don't have a copy in front of me)
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I could login as any other user, for that matter. Anyway, it's all happy and running 32 bit now. Much, much smoother, easier, and all manner of things that were causing trouble are now behaving (Java, Flash, and Eclipse to start with).
Turns out that you need ~/gconf/apps/evolution too, that seems to have directory-type information that makes it all work nicely.
Cheers, Simon
Do not forget to backup ~/.gconf/apps/evolution You can shutdown the evolution process for your account by executing as the user evolution --force-shutdown
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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