Re: [Evolution] best way to sync evolution on 2 computers

[David Ronis <ronis ronispc chem mcgill ca>]

Rsync will work, but assumes that you religiously do it before working
on either machine.  A better solution is to use something called
mailsync.  It does a 3-way comparison of specified mailfolders on each
machine and a state file, and then makes them the same. For example, you
delete a message on machine 1 and only several days later do you
remember to mailsync with machine 2.  Mailsync will pick this up and
delete the message on machine 2 whereas rsync will work only if machine
1's files are the most recent (i.e., you haven't used mail on machine 2
in the interim). 

OF COURSE THERE IS A DOWNSIDE:  Mailsync wasn't designed for
evolution--it works in a berkeley-mbox environment, and ignores the
summary files. Every time I run it, evolution complains about the
summary files the next time (or so) I run it.  In addition, it doesn't
deal with calendars/tasks at all.  I've spoken with the folks in the
opensync project and their suggestion is to write a plugin that would
handle host-host (not host-PIM) syncs.  IMHO, this would be very useful,
as the number of people (like me) who work in a desktop/laptop dual
environment can't be negligible.

David
  
 
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:23 -0500, Victor Chudnovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:43 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi victor,
> [snip]
> > thanks so much for this.  Two questions:
> > -I'm not quite sure what the /some/path/** lines signify -- are they
> > different from /some/path/* ?
> This is in the rsync format-- check the rsync man page for details. In
> short, * only matches until the next "/", whereas ** matches through any
> number of nested directories.
>
> > -Is it necessary to stop/restart the evolution-data-server before &
> > after synchronizing?  If so, how do you do it (I can imagine a script
> > that logs in remotely, executes a script on the remote server, logs
> > out, then proceeds to sync)?
>
> I do it, and on both machines, just to be safe. I quit the evolution
> windows, and then run:
> evolution --force-shutdown
> which seems to shut down the data server
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Victor
>
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