Re: trouble restoring databases

[Larry Siden <lsiden gmail com>]

I'm guessing now that MyPilot/0 is created and used by the gnome-pilot
backup conduit to back-up the previous back-up.  Normally, my stuff
gets backed up whenever I sync with gnome-pilot.  I sync with
gnome-pilot b/c it syncs with Evolution.  Only because gnome-pilot
stopped working for me temporarily, I had to use pilot-xfer. 
Nevertheless, thanks for the information.  I'll keep it in mind if I
need to resort to pilot-xfer regularly.

-ls

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:32:52 +0000, Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:14, Larry Siden wrote:
> > Nope, MyPilot/0 is clean of any sub-dirs.  Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Hang on...  I didn't read your mail closely enough.
> 
> You say you are running:
> pilot-xfer -r MyPilot
> 
> This means that pilot-xfer expects the MyPilot directory to contain
> nothing but files that can be installed onto your palm.  If you have a
> directory called MyPilot/0, that cannot be installed onto your palm, and
> pilot-xfer will complain.
> 
> If all your files are actually in MyPilot/0, then you have to run
> pilot-xfer -r MyPilot/0.  If all your files are in MyPilot, and the
> 'MyPilot/0' subdirectory contains stuff you don't need to restore, then
> move the MyPilot/0 directory out of MyPilot.
> 
> Matt
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:40:30 +0000, Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:55, Larry Siden wrote:
> > >
> > > > After several attempts at this, I decided to restore from backups
> > > > using pilot-xfer.  These all exist in a directory called ~/MyPilot.
> > > > I'm guessing that the contents were placed there over time by the
> > > > backup conduit.  So I ran pilot-xfer -r MyPilot.  Two things:
> > > > pilot-xfer immediately complains that it can't open the directory
> > > > MyPilot/0 (believe me, it's there, and I have permission to open it).
> > >
> > > What exactly is the error message?
> > >
> > > One thing to check: are there any sub-directories in MyPilot/0 ?
> > > If so, move them out of the way.  I think pilot-xfer expects a
> > > backup directory to have nothing in it except palm-readable files.
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > Matt Davey              Confucius say: To understand recursion, you must
> > > mcdavey mrao cam ac uk             first understand recursion.
> > >
> 


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Larry Siden
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