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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+ 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="2.32.1" version="0.1" date="2011-01-06" status="draft"/>
+ <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 Settings...</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 get asked to close Evolution. Answer with <gui style="button">Yes</gui>.</p></item>
+</list>
+</section>
+
+<section id="restore">
+<title>Restoring</title>
+<list>
+<item><p>Select <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Restore Evolution Settings...</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
+<item><p>Choose the file, and click <gui style="button">Open</gui>.</p></item>
+<item><p>You will get 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>
+
+</page>