Evolution: Restore from duplicity backup failed

[pbiel]

Hi!

I’ve installed a fresh Leap 16.0 (Gnome) on a new device, and migrated from an older one running 15.6. Deja-Dub worked well and most things seem to be in their place. I have one issue still (at least one I’ve found so far ): Evolution (the Gnome Mail suite) doesn’t find its accounts. When I start it, there is none of my mail/calendar/contacts/notes available, and I get the “welcome, new user” prompt.

There are three things I changed: I altered my device name, and my user name (so unfortunately symlinks into my old user directory are now broken, grrrr). And I altered my password. Therefore, on the first login on the new system, Seahorse (Gnome Keyring management) complained it can’t open the keyring. This has been fixed by now, and now, in Seahorse, I can see all the credentials from Evolution.

However, they have a field “e-source-uid”, which contains a number and "@.site. Is that probably the issue? I feel like it should be possible to migrate evolution data server to a device with a different name, but maybe not with Deja-Dub?

[hui]

https://help.gnome.org/evolution/data-storage.html

https://help.gnome.org/evolution/backup-restore.html

[pbiel]

Ok. Exporting from the old computer and than re-importing in the new seems to work. That however means one should keep an up-to-date export somewhere where the backup keeps it in case an old device is no longer available, right?

[knurpht]

@pbiel

backup keeps it in case an old device is no longer available, right?

No. You changed to some other user on the new system. From what I’ve read a simple sudo chown your_user:your_user /home/your_user -R would have done the job. Problem is that the owner of the backup is not the same as the owner of the homedir.

[john_hudson]

My experience with Evolution has been that it is safest and easiest to make regular backups; it doesn’t take long and the backups are compressed - so they don’t take up much space.