KDE: location of Kontact calendar files

Hi,
I'm on a fully updated Arch_X86-64/KDE 4.9.1 system.
Using Kontact, I would like to back up my calendar file (including ToDo entries too), yet, as can be seen from the terminal out, the calendar files are NOT where I'd expect them.
How can I find that file(s)?
Thanks
----------copy of terminal-----------------
$ pwd
/home/miki/.kde4/share/apps/korganizer
miki ~/.kde4/share/apps/korganizer $ ls -al
total 308
drwxr-xr-x 2 miki users 4096 Aug 7 04:37 .
drwx------ 41 miki users 4096 Aug 7 04:36 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 miki users 145872 Aug 6 14:33 oldstd.ics
-rw-r--r-- 1 miki users 152963 Aug 6 14:33 oldstd2.ics
-rw-r--r-- 1 miki users 103 Aug 7 04:37 std.ics
-rw-r--r-- 1 miki users 0 Aug 7 04:37 std.ics~

If your calendar is in a local .ics file, right click it in the calendars list, check "properties". There you should have the file path.

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