Re: Kontact save location?
"Andreas Zeller" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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Am 06.11.2011, 23:34 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>: > On Friday 04 November 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> On Friday, 2011-11-04, Andreas Zeller wrote: [...] >> > ...my backup of ~/ is sufficient? >> >> Yes. I always backup $HOME since I also want backup of all my other >> data :) It is definitely sufficient to backup PIM data, have been >> doing that for about a decade now. > > Yes, making a backup of $HOME is the right thing to do (although you can > exclude a few directories which only contain caches). > > But there's a small catch: You should make the backup when you are _not_ > logged in. Otherwise you risk backing up inconsistent data, e.g. a > running application might not yet have written everything to disk. This > is particularly important if databases are involved. Because I'm a noob, please tell me how to make a backup when I'm not logged in. -- Erstellt mit Operas revolutionärem E-Mail-Modul: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users