Backing Up and Restoring Evolution

With the Backup and Restore plugin enabled, you can successfully back up Evolution to your machine and restore it whenever it is required. The backup saves your Evolution settings, mail, contacts, tasks, memos, and calendars and creates an archive.

  1. Select File > Backup Settings to select the folder where you want to save the backup.

    Evolution is always backed up as evolution-backup.tar.gz.

    Before the backup process starts, it asks you to close Evolution and displays a warning as shown below:

  2. Select Restart Evolution after backup to restart Evolution immediately after the backup process.

  3. Click Yes to close Evolution and start the backup.

    Evolution will auto-restart after the process.

1.3.1. Restoring Evolution

This feature restores your settings from the archive.

  1. Select File > Restore Settings to open the available evolution-backup.tar.gz files.

  2. Select the evolution-backup.tar.gz and click Save.

    Before the process starts, a popup window appears and asks you to close Evolution. Close all the windows and then click Restore in the popup window.

    If you are creating your first account via the Startup Wizard, you can use the option to restore from the archive if it is available locally.

    Evolution will auto-restart after the process.