On Friday 30 March 2007 18:03:55 Martin Bernreuther wrote: > Am Freitag, 30. März 2007 schrieb Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper: > > Please make sure you make frequent backups of your local and PDA's > > databases. I know it sounds like you shouldn't have to, and in an ideal > > world you wouldn't but when bugs come around and take your data from you > > (as it looks like they might have here), you know how true this statement > > is. > > Is there a way to have a automatic backup? > Some applications like editors (kedit, kwrite) offer an entry in the setup, > where you can specify, if a copy of the previous version is retained when > saving a file. And maybe it's a good idea to have such a feature as the > default for a fresh installation... kpilot by default will backup the last copy of the databases on your palm, yes. however, it doesn't keep history (yet). > > As for your data... do you have any backups of your palm data? You can > > look in ~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup// to see if you > > have AddressDB.pdb, DatebookDB.pdb, ToDoDB.pdb, and MemoDB.pdb. If you > > do, save those off somewhere safe immediately!!! Also, look in > > ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/ for std.ics. You might or might not have > > std.ics~, which may contain a backup of your data. If you have it, save > > it immediately. Similarly, your contact data will be in > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ and you will hopefully have some backup files in > > there because kabc keeps its own backup files. > > Are the backup files created only saving data directly with > korganizer/kaddressbook, after a time period or also through a kpilot > synchronization procedure? No, these files are created outside of kpilot. -- -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper // http://movingparts.net ]- -[ KDE PIM Developer // http://www.kde.org ]- -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};: // Numbers 6:22-26 ]- _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list kdepim-users@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users