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

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

Danny Backx wrote:
> Hmm, I don't understand the 2 groups issue fully.
> 
> Some other plugins (e.g. evolution2) have multiple parts in their
> configuration, for addresses, calendar entries, and tasks.
> 
> Are you saying it is not workable to extend MirKuZ's SynCE plugin,
> with those three but also a fourth entry (one in which we say which
> directory a computer should synchronize the filesystem of my PDA) ?

no, im saying that you should extend mirkuz plugin to allow
synchronization of files. This is by far the most easy and best approach.

> 
> Or is this because most plugins have address/calendar/tasks triplets
> and it would make configuration easier if filesystem were separate ?
> 

Imagine the following situation:

You have the synce device which can synchronize either contacts (as
vcards) or files. The other side is the file-sync plugin. Now lets
assume that there is one file in the directory of the file-sync plugin
which contains a vcard.

Either you want to synchronize this vcard in the file to the addressbook
of the device or you want to synchronize the whole file into a directory
of the device. Both are equal and there is no way for opensync to decide
which synchronization would be correct.

Since i could not find a way to solve this dilemma, i decided that it
would be best to not allow such a synchronization at all.

But you can of course still sync all PIM data (notes, contacts,
calendar, tasks, email etc) in a single group.

Hope this helps :)

> Thanks,
> 
> 	Danny
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:36 +0200, Armin Bauer wrote:
> 
>>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