[jp] Backup and restore issues Was: Jpilot and Treo: backup broke my PDA

I've been using pilot-link and jpilot for quite some time. At least all 
the way back to when I had a US Robotics Palm device. There are some 
things that you have to watch out for if this is your situation.

      Jpilot and pilot-link can back things up that the consumer 
applications cannot. Some of these will cause an endless loop of resets 
when you restore. The trick is to attempt to identify the offending .pdb 
file and omit it from the backup. This can be frustrating. I ran into 
this with my Handspring Treo 300. I cannot remember what the offending 
file was. In the end I restored just the standard stuff: Address book, 
Calendar, To do list, Memos and then reinstalled my applications.

      If you are good with your data it's quite easy to overflow some of 
the Palm Applications. This is because Jpilot is so reliable. The last 
one for me was the calendar. I had Calendar entries growing back before 
2001. This was no problem for jpilot or pilot-link but caused the Mac 
Sync software to fail. The solution was to purge all the calendar 
entries from the palm before an arbitrary date.

This is probably too late for the original poster but I hope my 
experience can help someone else.

-- Chris