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      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="3.1.5" version="0.2" date="2011-08-05" status="final"/>
    <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 Data...</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 Data...</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>
