[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Where are the backups?

[.Mac Mike]

Eric,


On 3/2/05 9:47 AM, "Eric Ullman" <eullman at markspace.com> wrote:

> (Conduits in your home folder will be available to you, but not to other
> users of your computer.)
> 
>   Backups:  ~/Documents/Palm/Users/[YourHandheldName]/Backups/

Thanks for this info.  I was curious about this as well, but never took the
time to look in to it.  Great info.  Luckily I haven't had any major
catastrophes where I have needed this.



> One thing that we do differently is archive deleted PRCs and PDBs from the
> handheld. When you delete a file from the handheld, The Missing Sync's
> Backup conduit moves the backup of that file into an Archive folder. The
> reason we do this is to provide perfect restores.
> 
> When you restore a handheld with HotSync Manager, every file ever backed up
> from the handheld is restored, including old applications that you may have
> deleted months ago. In some cases, the restore does not complete before the
> handheld runs out of memory.
> 
> When you use The Missing Sync to restore a handheld, it only restores the
> files that were present during the last backup, leaving you with a perfect
> clone of what you had before. The archive then allows you to manually
> restore something that you deleted in the past, perhaps without meaning to,
> even after you've performed additional backups since you deleted the file.
> 
>   Archives: ~/Documents/Palm/Users/[YourHandheldName]/Backups/Archive/

This is awesome.  I remember doing restores using my old HotSync data and
everything I ever had got restored.  It was a real pain in the ass.  Even
old program files I had purposely deleted months back were restored to my
handheld device.  I could never understand why Palm couldn't understand that
simple little concept.  Glad you guys understand.

Another thing I noticed that was different between HotSync and Missing Sync
on Mac OS X was the time to do a backup.  I actually turned off the backup
conduit on HotSync because it would take a long time to back everything up.
With Missing Sync it seems to recognize what has changed and only does
required backups.  This will save me 3-10 minutes when compared to HotSync.
Of course the 1st sync takes a little while, but that is expected.
HotSync's backup on Windows worked great for me, but the Mac OS X version
was ugly.

Michael Tall
Visual Café Inc.