Jeff Abrahamson on 6 Oct 2004 14:30:06 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] pilot restore conundra


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:05:13AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
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> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
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> >I'm glad I maintain lots of backups.
> >
> >  
> >
> The routine backups that you can do with pilot-link/jpilot are actually 
> superior to the automated ones using Palm's HotSync system.  It's also 
> good to get a program like Filez (freeware, check Palmgear) to check 
> your file attributes and make sure the "backup-able" bit is set on PDBs 
> you want to back up regularly.

Agreed.  But I fend that running the following from cron once a day is
not a bad move, either. ;-)

    tar czf $BACKUP_DIR/`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.tgz $HOME/.jpilot

I must say, though, that I'm still a bit fuzzy on why the
palm-link/jpilot backups are necessary at all.  It seems like it
should just have an image of the PDB's on disk.

-- 
 Jeff

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