Kontact Backup

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dantavious

Beginner

Posts: 9

Monday, February 16th 2004, 1:44am

Kontact Backup

I really like Kontact! I was wondering how do you back it up. I have read several howto to back up Kmail however, all I ever back up is the messages that are in the inbox. What is important to me is the addressbook and the calendar. It takes a long time to enter all the data in again and again.
Thanks for your assistance

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anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Tuesday, February 17th 2004, 6:40pm

The addressbook is the same as for KAddressBock, the default file (can be change in control center) is
.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

Calendar is the calendar of Korganizer, I guess some file in
.kde/share/apps/korganizer

Cheers,
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Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

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dantavious

Beginner

Posts: 9

Saturday, February 28th 2004, 1:21am

Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was looking for
Dantavious

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thulemanden

Beginner

Posts: 25

Monday, October 10th 2005, 3:40pm

RE: Kontact Backup

Quoted

Originally posted by dantaviousI have read several howto to back up Kmail

Could you possibly write the link to this? I don't see any obvious mail exporter for backup.

Thanks.

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thulemanden

Beginner

Posts: 25

Monday, October 10th 2005, 3:56pm

RE: Kontact Backup

It is said you can backup the entire Mail folder like this:

tar -cvvf Mail.tar Mail/

later to be extracted as

tar -xvvf Mail.tar Mail/

keywords: kmail backup kde kontact back-up

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thulemanden

Beginner

Posts: 25

Monday, October 10th 2005, 4:07pm

RE: Kontact Backup

It turns out you can right-click the mouse in Konqueror on the Mail folder and select compressing in various formats and a Mail.extension is created. You move this compressed file to a safe location, like a USB disk.

Now, this can be done as a cron job I expect, like daily.