Re: [Evolution] Sync'ing desktop & laptop Evolution

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 11:11 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:28 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:
> > On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:11:23 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > They are in Gconf. 
> >   I wonder why in earh they are stached there., and not in the
> > .evolution directory 
> Because the Gnome standard says that they should be stored there. (And
> anything beyond 2.30 doesn't use .evolution at all)

+1
 
> > > Evo was never designed to be cloned or synced in this way (or any
> > > other), 
> >   I beg to differ with the "any other way ", Pete!
> > Yesterday I tried the Backup/Restore functions and found they worked
> > beautifully, and are so well designed and integrated.
> >   It took just a few seconds to create a backup and then restore that
> > into a trial installation of Evo on an other machine as a clone, which
> > is precisely what I had been looking for, to allow me to clone to the
> > laptop for a trip (and then clone back afterwards).

Backup/Restore is *not* sync.  You can have exactly *one* active worker
at any given time and they all must be the exact same version.
Backup/Restore is just backup-and-restore.

> I used to try and find methods of keeping multiple copies of Evo in sync
> - especially calendars and contacts, but mail as well.  Since I moved
> everything on to servers and exclusively use IMAP/CalDAV/LDAP (either on
> public or private servers), then things are much easier. 

+1 Groupware is the solution for this;  to morph the old adage - "those
who refuse to use groupware are doomed to recreate it" [and their
recreation will almost certainly be crap].

>  At the last
> count I had 6 copies of Evo all working nicely together, two of which
> are laptops; it has the added benefit that my iPhone also plays happily
> with it.