Re: Use PilotManager for full backups (RE: CLue to duplicate appts.)

[Jonathan Loran <jloran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this is blasphemy, but if you want a full backup from your
pc/windoze hotsync, try BuckupBuddy http://www.BackupBuddy.com/.  It
will backup apps installed in FlashROM too, I think.



Trevor Pretty - SolNet Limited - Sun NZ ISO wrote:
> 
> Correct
> 
> If you want a full backup use Pilot Manager. My wife uses the 3com PC
> desktop and we did our rolling upgrade (I got a 5 she got my old 3) my
> was a breeze took about 3 mins. Hers was a nightmare because the 3 com
> product assumes you have kept the original copies of the apps you have
> doenloaded and you have to re-install them. It only saves the apps data
> as far as I could make out not the app. i.e. the .prn/.pdb files not
> the .prc  files (I think don't quote me it was something like this).
> 
> You can guess what I had done with the free downloads.....
> 
> Trevor
> 
> >From: "Bharat Mediratta" <bmedirat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: Jonathan Loran <jloran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robin Jeffries <Robin.Jeffries@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alan.Harder@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: CLue to duplicate appts.
> >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:26:14 -0700
> >
> >
> >In fact, I've found that the PC backup does not back up everything.
> >It only seems to back up the databases with the backup flag set.
> >Whereas, the Backup conduit can be configured to save every last
> >scrap of data on the Pilot.
> >
> >-Bharat
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jonathan Loran [mailto:jloran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:19 PM
> >> To: Robin Jeffries
> >> Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alan.Harder@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: CLue to duplicate appts.
> >>
> >>
> >> Robin Jeffries wrote:
> >> >
> >> > OK, I'll admit that I also sync in multiple machines, but I
> >> definitely
> >> > don't understand why it should lead to the problems I see.
> >> I have to
> >> > sync with my PC, because its the only place that will backup
> >> > everything on my pilot.
> >>
> >> Not true.  If you use the backup conduit, pilotmgr will fully backup
> >> your pilot.  I've recoverd from disasters a few times this way, and it
> >> works.
> >>
> >> <.>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>   - Jonathan Loran -
> >>   Space Sciences Lab
> >>      UC Berkeley
> >>     (510) 643-8485
> >> jloran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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