CalDAV, CardDAV folders for gnome-online-accounts since GNOME 46

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Hello!

Since GNOME 46 (IIRC) added proper support for generic WebDAV contacts and calendar, where does the synchronized / cached files go? Since this is not my “IMAP” account anymore, would the folder be the same as in … ?

Would running /usr/libexec/evolution/evolution-backup include this new CalDAV + CardDAV account, too?

TIA

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Hi,
as far as GNOME Online Accounts is involved, nothing is managed by the
Evolution directly, thus also nothing is backed up by it.

The part you quoted responds to the rest, I’m not going to repeat it.
Having the account configured directly in the Evolution, the backup
won’t contain the events and contacts, because they are in the cache.

Bye,
Milan
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Thanks, Milan!

I’m trying to figure if déjà-dup is already backing up these data or if I need to do something else. Does goa store this data somewhere (where)? Or perhaps it’s gnome-contacts and gnome-calendar doing it? (I’m using them to read and occasionally edit the contacts and appointments.)

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I’m trying to figure if déjà-dup is already backing up these data or
if I need to do something else.

Hi,

you can instruct the “3rd-party” backup tool to backup various
Evolution(-data-server) related directories:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/evolution/help/data-storage.html

Just note that the “disposable data” is not backed up by the internal
backup tool of the Evolution, because those things can be downloaded
from the server. Including them in your backup can speed up the initial
synchronization after restore from that backup file, but it also can
mean a significantly larger backup file.

There are some more directories you might want to back up, like:

   ~/.pki/
   ~/.local/share/camel_certs/

which store certificate settings and mail server certificates. These
are not backed up in the Evolution tool too.

Does goa store this data somewhere (where)?

GOA stores only the account definitions, it does not care of the data
the consumers of these account definitions create on their own. The
definitions are stored at ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf .

Or perhaps it’s gnome-contacts and gnome-calendar doing it?

They both connect to the evolution-data-server (eds) background
processes to access the contacts and the events. It’s the eds talking
to the GOA and transforming the GOA account definitions to something
what the eds clients can use.

Bye,
Milan
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