Re: [Opensync-users] One-way sync (WAS: Advice on a cell phone purchase?)

[Emanoil K. <del...@ya...>]

Hello everybody, hello Graham,

thank you for explaining the way you do a one way sync.

Everything sounds too complicated and not very reliable.

I would prefer the way described by you and Dotan. to push from kde-pim to the phones (I have private and company one).

I'll simply need a step by step guide. I also was asking myself how to activate logging and where are the log files for the opensync.



Graham Cobb <g+o...@co...> wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 07:11:13 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/6/3 Emanoil Kotsev :
> > Syncing is (should be) bi-directional, the one way is copy ;-)
>
> That is true. I have had lots of bad experience with:
> 1) Two-way data transfer between unlike database sources.
> 2) Telephones' limited data-entry methods.
>
> So, I prefer to enter data on the desktop and then push it to the
> phone as well. The phone can then mangle it all it wants, the real
> data is safe in KDE-PIM. When I am without the phone and I must add a
> phone number I prepend the name with a dot, so that I know to update
> KDE-PIM when I get home.

I also tend to use one-way sync to my phone.  In my case it is complicated 
further because I keep the master data on my (employer-provided) laptop in 
Outlook (and, hence, Exchange) and I only have one-way sync from Exchange 
into the Opensync environment (from which I propagate the data to kdepim, to 
my Nokia Internet Tablet and to my phone).
The situation I have is more complicated as I'm using linux also on the company notebook, where I use Evolution as an Exchange client but in SuSe. so I need to sync my personal contacts stored in evo somehow with the phone and at home sync the phone with my personal contacts stored in KDE ... and then sync the data with my private mobile .... or sync both phones at work and at home.
But even once in the Opensync environment, I only do one-way sync to my phone, 
because of the problem that the phone only stores a subset of the data.  The 
way I do that (with Opensync 0.2x) is to first sync the phone with an empty 
file-sync directory, then copy in the data files from Outlook and re-sync.  
How could I do this in both environments? I mean at work and at home ... push the data to the phone(s)?
This means that changes to existing entries on the phone are lost (new 
entries created on the phone are propagated into the Opensync environment -- 
I do have an option which deletes all the files before copying in the data 
for use when I want to clean all the data from the phone).
So you first clean the phone and then store the data? I understand right?
With Opensync 0.3x I am hoping I won't need to do that any more because 
Did you try the 0.3 versioin ... to be honest I'm afraid to lose data using dev software. I can backup only one phone in Windows (as I'm using windows in a VMware and only have usb cable for one of the phones)
Opensync will know that the phone only stores a subset of data and won't get 
confused when it is read back.  However, it would still be useful to be able 
to specify one-way (with and without a "remove all the existing data first" 
option).
This sounds promising. I'm looking forward to build a test environment and check the 0.3 version

The hole discussion is making me some kind of sad, because I was used to sync without problems with my Palm III and Siemens S55 few years ago and was thinking that things getting better.
In fact it's a nightmare to get a simple thing done.
Hopefully in future it will change

regards