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      type="topic" id="backup-restore">

  <info>
    <desc>Back up and restore your Evolution data and settings.</desc>

    <link type="guide" xref="index#data-migration-and-sync"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="data-storage"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.3" date="2011-09-29" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

  <title>Back up and restore</title>

<p>You can back up your Evolution data. The backup saves your settings, mail, contacts, tasks, memos and calendars. It will be stored in a gzip-compressed tar archive file.</p>

<section id="backup">
<title>Backing up</title>
<list>
<item><p>Select <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Back up Evolution Data...</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Choose a filename and the folder where you want to save the backup file, and click <gui style="button">Save</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>You will be asked to close Evolution. Answer with <gui style="button">Yes</gui>.</p></item>
</list>
<note style="warning"><p>Note that your <link xref="mail-spam">spam filtering</link> settings are not included in the backup file, as these settings are not controlled by Evolution and as developers of spam filtering tools might change implementation details. If you use Bogofilter you will need to back up <file>~/.bogofilter/</file>. If you use SpamAssassin you will need to back up <file>~/.spamassassin/</file>.</p></note>
</section>

<section id="restore">
<title>Restoring</title>
<list>
<item><p>Select <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Restore Evolution Data...</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Choose the file, and click <gui style="button">Open</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>You will be asked to close Evolution. Answer with <gui style="button">Yes</gui>.</p></item>
</list>
<note style="tip"><p>In the <link xref="intro-first-run">first-run assistant</link>, you can restore Evolution data from a backup file.</p></note>
</section>

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