Re: Backing up Kontact

Hi Anne

Most helpful, thank you!

Best, Martin

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:37:18 you wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 11:21:47 Martin wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > At http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact#Migrating_your_setup_to_a_new_distro
> >  there is a list of config files and directories that one needs to backup
> >  for migration. I am about to use this (not actually to migrate at this
> >  moment but simply to use as a way to backup Kontact) but I would like to
> >  check whether anybody has used this list and found it to be complete.
> 
> Hi Martin.  I was one of the authors of that article, and it has been
>  checked by several other people.  I have done this many times and can
>  confirm that the list is complete (that's why others check - I had in fact
>  initially missed one file, but someone corrected that).
> 
> > At the moment I backup my whole Home (with BackupInTime) but I have no
> > wish to do this - too many things change all the time - and I only want
> > to backup my documents and essential items such as Kontact and my
> > OpenOffice personal dictionary.
> 
> The quickest and easiest way to do that is to save whole directories, such
>  as ~/.kde, ~/.openoffice.org, /.mozilla and maybe one or two more,
>  depending on the things you normally work on.  You configuration files for
>  those applications will be in those folders.
> 
> > I added a note to Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76690 because
> > I feel that Kontact requires a simple backup and restore system like the
> > one that Evolution has - which is great for backing up and especially for
> > migration.
> 
> Yes, I saw that.
> 
> Anne
>