sync one palm with many pcs

Dear Mailinglist,
I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one pilot with
multiple pcs
(that are not connected). As it is hard to find answers at
google, could
you please give me experiences or further websites.
Thanks,
Ralf Dragon


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On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:43, Ralf Dragon wrote:
> I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one pilot
with multiple pcs
> (that are not connected). As it is hard to find answers
at google, could
> you please give me experiences or further websites.

I'll got for a qualified "yes" to this question.
You will have slow syncs when 
switching PCs since all the data needs to be downloaded from
the Palm, but it 
ought to work. Some things will naturally be weird or
undetectable: I can 
imagine situations where data isn't removed when it should
be because the 
Pilot can't tell that something was deleted on a different
machine from the 
one it's syncing against now.

Keep extra backups of everything if you're going to try
this.
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On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:43, Ralf Dragon wrote:
> Dear Mailinglist,
> I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one pilot
with multiple pcs
> (that are not connected). As it is hard to find answers
at google, could
> you please give me experiences or further websites.
> Thanks,

The answer is yes you can, but you may not want to.

I use Suse 10.1, and Kpilot to sync my Palm Tungsten E on my
office desktop, 
my laptop, and my home desktop. 

Be careful what you set your preferences to in the Kpilot
setup so you don't 
end up duplicating entries everywhere. My solution was to
have all my 
information (addressbook, email, notes, calendar, etc
together on the laptop. 

Then I synced to a blank Palm. Then I used that Palm to sync
to the other two 
computers. I still screw up occasionally and end up with
duplicate events or 
email addresses. 

Bob.
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On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Robert Smits wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:43, Ralf Dragon wrote:
> > Dear Mailinglist,
> > I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one
pilot with multiple pcs
> > (that are not connected). As it is hard to find
answers at google, could
> > you please give me experiences or further
websites.
> > Thanks,
>
> The answer is yes you can, but you may not want to.
>
> I use Suse 10.1, and Kpilot to sync my Palm Tungsten E
on my office
> desktop, my laptop, and my home desktop.
>
> Be careful what you set your preferences to in the
Kpilot setup so you
> don't end up duplicating entries everywhere. My
solution was to have all my
> information (addressbook, email, notes, calendar, etc
together on the
> laptop.
>
> Then I synced to a blank Palm. Then I used that Palm to
sync to the other
> two computers. I still screw up occasionally and end up
with duplicate
> events or email addresses.

If you see anything that is kpilot's fault, PLEASE report it
so we can get it 
fixed!  =


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On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Ralf Dragon wrote:
> Dear Mailinglist,
> I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one pilot
with multiple pcs
> (that are not connected). As it is hard to find answers
at google, could
> you please give me experiences or further websites.
> Thanks,
> Ralf Dragon

Hi Ralf,

I do exactly this myself with kpilot.  And I can tell you
that it works very, 
very well.  The only missing functionality that I have right
now is our 
memofile conduit doesn't do a full sync yet, so while my
palm has all of my 
memos, they don't get propagated correctly to my PCs
(whichever one I didn't 
edit the note on doesn't have the latest copy, etc.).  

Please make sure you're using the latest kpilot code (kde
3.5.6 has the latest 
released kpilot code), and please report back with any and
all problem!  =

Good luck!!

Oh, yeah, and seriously, heed Adriaan's warnings about
making frequent, 
regular backups, just in case.



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On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:43, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:43, Ralf Dragon wrote:
> > I'm asking myself if it is possible to sync one
pilot with multiple pcs
> > (that are not connected). As it is hard to find
answers at google, could
> > you please give me experiences or further
websites.
>
> I'll got for a qualified "yes" to this
question. You will have slow syncs
> when switching PCs since all the data needs to be
downloaded from the Palm,
> but it ought to work. Some things will naturally be
weird or undetectable:
> I can imagine situations where data isn't removed when
it should be because
> the Pilot can't tell that something was deleted on a
different machine from
> the one it's syncing against now.
>
> Keep extra backups of everything if you're going to try
this.

Regardless of the sync software, when syncing multiple
databases, you have to 
follow the rule of "one host many clients".  That
is if you have handheld 
(h), computer 1 (c1), computer 2 (c2), and computer 3 (c3),
you can

sync h with c1, c2 and c3, but in that scenario, never
thereafter c1 with c2.  
Here h is the host and c1, c2 and c4 are the clients.

or you could

sync c2 with h, c1 and c3, but in that scenario, never h
with c1 or c3,  Here, 
c2 is the host.

To do otherwise is to invite data corruption.

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