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

[David Neil]

/Users/<user name>/Documents/Palm/Users/<hotsync name>/Backups/

David Neil
Mark/Space, Inc.


On 3/11/05 1:24 PM, "scott" <Scott at proserver.com> wrote:

> 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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