Backup Evolution Mail

I would like to backup my email that I have already downloaded and stored in Evolution. I know there is an option in Evolution to backup your Evolution settings but how can you backup your mail accounts and mail.

Thank you.

You can create a backup by clicking File->Backup settings... in Evolution this will save you data and configuration.

Manually you should run evolution –force-shutdown first to make sure evolution is not using the files.

Then you can Backup:

• ~/.evolution (this saves your data)
• ~/.gconf/apps/evolution (and this your configuration)

The easiest way to backup all of your Evolution is to backup the (hidden) evolution folder in your home directory:

~/.evolution

The simpliest way is go to File>Backup data (or something else). That will create an /home/yout_username/evolution-backup.tar.gz. This is the backup file with everything (except passwords).

Note that archiving ~/.evolution does not produce the same result as File>Backup

So, the two methods mentioned by in answers are not equivalent.