Akonadi/it

Introduzione

Il framework Akonadi fornisce alle applicazioni un database centralizzato per memorizzare, indicizzare e recuperare le informazioni personali dell'utente. Queste comprendono i messaggi di posta elettronica, i contatti, i calendari, gli eventi, le attività del giorno, gli avvisi, le note, ecc. dell'utente. Nella SC 4.4 KAddressBook è diventata la prima applicazione ad iniziare a far uso del framework Akonadi. Nella SC 4.7 KMail, KOrganizer, KJots, ecc. sono state aggiornate per utilizzare anch'esse Akonadi. Inoltre anche numerosi oggetti di Plasma utilizzano Akonadi per memorizzare e recuperare calendari, eventi, note ecc.

Currently, all KDE PIM applications with the exception of Akregator are using Akonadi to access user's PIM data.

Controllare il server Akonadi

Akonadi will start automatically in the background when any application using it is started.

To manually start, stop or restart Akonadi, you can use the akonadictl command from the commandline. Using this method, you can get additional useful information on the console.

Per avviare il server Akonadi

akonadictl start

Per fermare il server Akonadi

akonadictl stop

Per riavviare un server di Akonadi in esecuzione

akonadictl restart

Per conoscere lo stato del server Akonadi

akonadictl status

Disabling the Akonadi subsystem

The Akonadi server is automatically started by any Akonadi-enabled application. If you don't want Akonadi to be started after login, you have to ensure that no Akonadi-enabled application is launched at login or thereafter. Remember to check Plasma applets as well — the Digital Clock widget in the default panel, for instance uses Akonadi to (optionally) display calendar events and this is enabled in its settings by default (see the "Display Events" option) . You must remove any widgets that may start it from your start-up, if you wish Akonadi to start only when you start KMail or other applications.

Ricorda

Se non vuoi avere Akonadi in esecuzione sul tuo sistema, non puoi utilizzare le applicazioni che lo utilizzano. Queste applicazioni avvieranno Akonadi ogni qualvolta necessiteranno dei suoi servizi anche se lo hai disattivato. Vedi l'elenco delle applicazioni che utilizzano Akonadi. Tieni conto anche che alcuni oggetti di Plasma come l' orologio digitale utilizzano Akonadi

To ensure that Akonadi is not started, check that no applications require it at login. In particular, open the Plasma clock applet preferences, go to Calendar and uncheck Show events to prevent Plasma from requesting information from Akonadi and thus allowing it to start.

Some Definitions

Real data

By real data we mean the data, like the contacts or events. These data are stored either on a groupware server or in local files. Where exactly depends on the resource you are using. E.g. the Personal Contacts resource stores its data under $XDG_DATA_HOME/contacts.

Cached data

The cached data are copies of the real data that are kept in the database for faster access and offline caching. The database also keeps the meta data which are management data needed by Akonadi to work correctly.

Configuration data

The configuration data are the data that configure the Akonadi server and the individual resources. The general configuration data for the server can be found under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/akonadi. The configuration data for each indvidual resources are stored under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/akonadi_xyz_resourcerc# (xyz is name of resource and # its instance number).

The Akonadi server configuration is a couple of files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/akonadi. It contains which data sources and helper programs are active and will be started and watched (so they can be restarted on crashes) by one of Akonadi's server processes (akonadi_control).

Each data source handler (called resources) or helper program (called agents) can have its own configuration although some agents or resources don't require configuration. The general rule is that for every entry in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/akonadi/agentsrc there is a corresponding configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. For example, if the [Instances] section in agentrc contains an entry for akonadi_ical_resource_2, there is also a config file called akonadi_ical_resource_2rc in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory.

Depending on the type of data, such config files for resources will have filenames or directory names of where the data is stored. Common locations are KDE's legacy default files, e.g. $HOME/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics. New default locations are files and directories in $XDG_DATA_HOME, e.g. $XDG_DATA_HOME/contacts.

Backup

So now we need to decide what to back up. If you want to backup the "real data", then it depends on the resources you have configured... if you use a groupware server, then the backup should be done there. For contacts, the files under $XDG_DATA_HOME/contacts will normally be what you need.

To back up the entire Akonadi configuration, including which resources are active and their configuration, you can use the pimdataexporter' tool. This, however doesn't back up the Akonadi database containing the cached data and, unfortunately, after restoring the configuration (using the pimdataexporter again), Akonadi will have to re-fetch all data again into its cache. This can cause configuration that points to actual mail folders or calendars to get broken and accidentally point to another folder.

After restoring configuration and syncing all data, it's vital to manually check all folder configuration, especially in KMail identities and make sure the folders are configured properly.

Domande frequenti

Ora dove si trovano i miei dati?

Your data are safely stored outside of Akonadi control on your disk (e.g. local maildir folder or iCal calendar), or on a remote server (in case of e.g. email over IMAP or events from a CalDAV calendar). Akonadi will optionally store a copy of this data in its database to allow applications to quickly retrieve and display them. Any modifications done to data in the Akonadi database will be synced to the actual storage. The main advantage of using the database as a cache is that remote PIM data are available even when you are offline, and you can still interact with them (e.g. mark emails as read or move them, create new events, reschedule existing meetings etc.) and all the changes will get synced automatically once you connect to the internet again.

Thus, deleting the Akonadi database will not cause any data to be lost (as long as all pending changes are synced).

How to upgrade my PostgreSQL database?

After updating your PostgreSQL server to a new major version, sometimes you will have to convert your Akonadi database for use with this new version. Instructions can be found on this page.

Problemi di migrazione

La voce del glossario su Akonadi offre una breve descrizione del suo scopo e altri utili collegamenti. Questa pagina spiega come lavorano insieme Akonadi e KAddressBook.

How do I switch from MySQL/PostgreSQL to SQLite?

Since Akonadi 6 akonadi-db-migrator is included in akonadi that allows you to switch the database backend. Where for previous versions this involved deleting and recreating the database a migration is now properly supported by akonadi.

The tool needs to be called with the parameter --newengine to chose to which backend it should to: {{{

 --newengine <ENGINE>       The new DB engine to use. Possible values are 
                            "sqlite", "mysql" and "postgres"

}}}

For example: {{{ akonadi-db-migrator --newengine sqlite }}}