Comment 14 for bug 357091

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:23:47PM -0000, Luca Invernizzi wrote:
> Export is for easily backup and move tasks to new installations

Seems like could be easily achieved by just tarballing
~/.share/local/gtg and pop up file dialog for where to store it.

Personally, what I do to backup is just

  cd ~/.share/local/gtg;
  cp -r gtg gtg-$date

Perhaps could even be as simple as this?

As far as the suggestion of allowing the task database to be stored in
any arbitrary location, I don't have a firm opinion, however it seems
the main reason why one would need to know where that is would be to
deal with a problem, and from a support point of view having the xml
file in a predictable location would probably simplify troubleshooting a
good bit...

Anyway, I don't think we should turn away a patch if someone wanted to
contribute this as a fix, but neither do I think it should really be a
priority for the core development team to work on.

And maybe Luca's right that the backends work will make this all a moot
point and give the functionality for free anyway. :-)