[missing-sync-palmos-talk] A warning to those who depend on the Backup conduit

[scott]

where does MS store the backups - I would like to check the status

Scott

On Mar 11, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Jason Davies wrote:

>> I had assumed that Mark/Space's backup conduit would be just as
>> reliable as pilot-xfer, but unfortunately this is not the case, as I
>> discovered recently. After installing IBM's Java development kit, my
>> Treo suddenly went into an infinite reset loop, forcing a hard reset
>> and a loss of all data. I had no qualms about this, since I had just
>> performed a hotsync earlier that day, but after restoring I was
>> shocked to discover that my backup directory was over two months out
>> of date!
>
> I appreciate the mention of the problems and assume that it is not
> unreasonable to mention another not dissimilar program on this list-
> SyncBuddy has just been released for Mac Os X. This allows you to
> manually back up and you can back up more than the Hotsync architecture
> allows (if I have understood it, and I may not have).
>
> IN fact, what I'd really like is the functionality of both MS and Sync
> Buddy...! there is some overlap but it's partial and there's certainly
> room for both.
>
> finally another option (the one I use, actually) is to use something
> like McFile to back up to a media card (I don't know your model, so
> don't know if this is relevant).
>
>
> <http://www.florentpillet.com/syncbuddy.html> (which stresses it is not
> a replacement for the sync software!)
>
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