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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Kontact save location?
From:       "Andreas Zeller" <a-zeller () web ! de>
Date:       2011-11-09 10:47:10
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Am 06.11.2011, 23:34 Uhr, schrieb Ingo Klöcker <kloecker@kde.org>:

> On Friday 04 November 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> On Friday, 2011-11-04, Andreas Zeller wrote:

[...]

>> > ...my backup of ~/ is sufficient?
>>
>> Yes. I always backup $HOME since I also want backup of all my other
>> data :) It is definitely sufficient to backup PIM data, have been
>> doing that for about a decade now.
>
> Yes, making a backup of $HOME is the right thing to do (although you can
> exclude a few directories which only contain caches).
>
> But there's a small catch: You should make the backup when you are _not_
> logged in. Otherwise you risk backing up inconsistent data, e.g. a
> running application might not yet have written everything to disk. This
> is particularly important if databases are involved.

Because I'm a noob, please tell me how to make a backup when I'm not  
logged in.



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