Re: SyncML

Nils Faerber <nils_at_kernelconcepts.de> writes:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:50:16 +0100
> Tom <tom_at_lemuria.org> wrote:
> > if we agree to use an SQL backend, then db dumps in SQL format seem to
> > be the most portable way to go and are fully rsync compatabile. as an
> > alternative, we could sync the transaction logs or go with timestamps
> > (select * from addresses where last_update > X).
>
> Wouldn't dumps imply that you first have to do the dump into some local
> file before you can rsync it?

There has been some discussion of using a database *server* on the
iPAQ to allow each of the applications to read and write its data
from/to. Given that server, there's no reason that synchronization
couldn't take place via the host connecting to the iPAQ's database
server and issuing the synchronization query. (And if the iPAQ is the
one that decides that it is now in range of the host and wants to
initiate a sync, it can issue an ssh command to run on that host to
retrieve the synchronization data.)

Derrell
Received on Thu Jan 03 2002 - 06:07:05 EST