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To fully backup and restore Evolution data, including signatures, email account configuration, etc, you need to backup the following files and directories:............. snipped .............. I usually tar my evolution components, and since I'm always the first (non-root) user on my Linux machines, when I un-tar and restore the files, the permissions are already set.
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I successfully used this method earlier this evening. Worked very nice! Your suggestion to tar and un-tar was especially useful.
I did get a MAJOR fright when the openSUSE-10.3 NTFS driver could not see the backup ~/.evolution, ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, and ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution on my external USB NTFS formatted hard drive. I had backed those files there earlier in the day, with the openSUSE-10.1 NTFS-3G driver. In fact, of 320 some GBytes backed up, only about 100 GBytes were visible on the external USB (NTFS formatted) drive with the openSUSE-10.3 NTFS driver.
After some time of being most upset at what appeared to be a loss of 4 years of emails, and an address book built up after 4 years, it suddenly occured to me that the data was not lost, but rather it was an openSUSE-10.3 NTFS driver problem in viewing files written by 10.1's NTFS-3G 3rd party driver. I also confirmed this by Windoze XP being able to read the openSUSE-10.1 NTFS-3G written files. .... So I loaded the openSUSE-10.3 NTFS-3G driver, and used that to successfully read the external USB (NTFS formatted) device (and the 10.1 NTFS-3G written files), and I was back in business and able to copy the evolution files, and restore all my email and the 220 GBytes of missing data.
So all's well that ends well, and thanks for the mini "how to" on this.