[jp] Jpilot and Treo: backup broke my PDA

I've had trouble with jpilot's backup/restore functionality as well.

The backup seems to work fine, except that I suspect it's backing up too
many things, since when I do a restore, my TX's will get very confused - and
sorry, I don't recall in what way, but the PDA's were unusable until a hard
reset - it's been a while.

What I've done to work around the problem is to come up with a small shell
script that knows which of my tables to restore (not all of them in the
backup), and feeds them back to the PDA via pilot-xfer.

Actually, I thought it was someone on the pilot-xfer or jpilot mailing lists
who told me that there were too many pdb's backed up; I'd thought that was
common knowledge.

On Jan 18, 2008 5:50 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:

> Treo 650, Ubuntu 7.10, Jpilot-0.99.9.19 compiled from source
>
> Jpilot did not work "out of the box". I tried "usb:" for the Serial Port
> and it did not work.
>
> Then I created this file:
>
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules
> BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="PalmSN12345678", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]*",
> SYMLINK="pilot", GROUP="dialout"
>
> Then I manually loaded the visor module:
>
> sudo modprobe visor
>
> Used "/dev/pilot" for Serial Port. After many unsuccessful attempts, it
> finally synchronized. But...
>
> After finishing sync, the PDA rebooted. And now it keeps rebooting in a
> loop.
>
> Soft reset (pull the battery out, then back in, or push the reset hole)
> did not help.
>
> Warm reset (soft reset while holding the Up button) appears to fix it,
> but the PDA starts resetting in a loop when accessing any application.
>
> Hard reset (soft reset while holding the red phone button) fixed it, but
> of course erased all my data.
>
> Luckily, the data seems to be saved in Jpilot.
>
> I think I am going to export the Calendar, Memo, Todo, Contacts to the
> CSV format, then re-import them to the PDA on Windows, using the Palm
> Desktop software.
> I will probably refrain from using Linux to back up the PDA, at least
> for a while. It's just way too much trouble. Booting Windows once every
> week or so is not too bad.
>
> The Linux software needs to improve a lot before it's actually usable.
> Seems like a regression to me - I remember using Jpilot with my old Palm
> m100, and then with the Visor Platinum, just fine. But nowadays it's a
> mess. It fails to even initiate the backup/sync, and when it does
> succeed, it breaks the PDA. That's not fun at all.
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> http://florin.myip.org/
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Dan Stromberg
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