While doing some fixes for my Tomboy note sync server grauphel, I needed a way to test its authentication code on my local server - but I did not want to lose the Tomboy configuration for my live server.
tomboy has a --note-path parameter which allows you to work with a different set of notes. This still keeps the original sync server configuration.
~/.config/tomboy/ does not contain any sync server information; in fact I found that it didn't really contain any usable configuration information that I had expected there.
Using gconfeditor I found that all configuration was stored in /apps/tomboy, the synchronization server settings are in /apps/tomboy/sync/tomboyweb/.
With gconftool it is possible to backup and restore parts of the gnome configuration tree, and I could use it to get a kind of "tomboy configuration profiles":
$ mkdir ~/tmp/tomboy $ cd ~/tmp/tomboy $ gconftool --dump /apps/tomboy > tomboy-config-live.xml #clear all settings $ gconftool --unload tomboy-config-live.xml $ tomboy --note-path . #.. test things #.. restore & start normally $ gconftool --load tomboy-config-live.xml $ tomboy