Re: [Opensync-users] question: backing up non-PIM data from my Mio

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Danny Backx wrote:
> Question on how to proceed with this.
> 
> I'd like to use SynCE and OpenSync to back up my PDA. Not only the PIM
> data (the agenda, contacts, tasks), but also some of the file structures
> in its memory, or on the memory card.
> 
> What's the best way to do this ? One end is probably the file plugin
> to opensync, I'm wondering about the other end. Should that be an
> extension to the 0.01 synce plugin by MirKuZ (i.e. extend it to do not
> only tasks, agenda, .. but also files); or should it be a separate
> plugin like MirKuZ's that just deals with files ?
> 

Hi,

the best and easiest approach would be to extend mirkuz plugin to allow
the synchronization of files. You just tell opensync that you are able
to synchronize files in the get_info function and implement the
necessary functions to handle this. The rest will be handled by opensync.

Note: you cannot however synchronize files and PIM data in the same sync
group, you need 2 groups for this. The reason is that opensync would
never know if you wanted to synchronize a vcard it gets from the
file-sync plugin to the file storage of the device or to the addressbook.

> Thanks for the advice,
> 
> 	Danny