Has the KDE Social/Semantic Desktop been worth the hassle to anyone?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am 18.11.2012 20:05, schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> > On Sunday, 2012-11-18, Martin (KDE) wrote:

> >> What do I have to migrate then?
> > 
> > For example there could be data that has not yet been written to its
> > backend. That would be the case if Akonadi is shut down (e.g. due to
> > logout) while one of the resources that had user changes was not online
> > (e.g. could not connect to its server).
> > 
> > There could also be meta data that a backend was not able to handle
> > itself, e.g. read/unread status of emails from an mbox file.
> > 
> > While discarding of meta data would be no more than an annoyance,
> > discarding of uncommitted changes could be (an uncommitted deleted would
> > be just an annoyance and uncommitted add not so much).
> 
> So, if I want to switch from mysql to sqlite I have to

- check that there aren't any unsaved changes. all resources must be online, 
no Akonadi clients attempt changes anymore, the resource's change recorder 
files are empty.

> - stop akonadi
> - wait a few seconds to let akonadi sync
> - switch to sqlite
> - start akonadi
> 
> With imap and maildir all should be the same as before.

Data should be the same as before for all backends, meta data will vary 
depending on backend.

> Is there a backup thingy that creates pure sql statements to migrate the
> data?

I doubt that SQL dumped from MySQL will be understood by anything other than 
MySQL.
I think the Akonaditray utility can trigger a MySQL dump, the mysql client or 
any MySQL GUI can most likely do the same.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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