4:32 a.m.
On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 14:26 +0000, John wrote:
The Defy Mini recently suffered a startup crash which wiped out
contacts (still dont know why, but i suspect the SD card). So i
synced, but of course this correctly deleted all contacts in
evolution. Doooh!
So i reloaded the server from my tablet via Synthesis, as I couldn't
find the right syntax to restore the server from its backups, as in:
syncevolution --restore <session directory> --before|--after
[--dry-run] [--] <config> <source> ...
It would indeed be useful to have a Wiki page were a user is walked
through the steps to use the recovery feature from the command line.
There's only a page about the GUI:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/sync-gui-data-recovery
After many attempts :-( I have succeeded with a dry run :-) using:
john@Kitchen-Precise:~$ syncevolution
--restore .cache/syncevolution/defymini-2013-01-10-12-16 --before
--dry-run defymini addressbook
This all looks good, (and the database includes the addressbook.
before which shows all the items before the wipe).
Before committing this restore, could anyone please comment as to if i
am on the right track, or have missed out anything vital?
[INFO] addressbook: started
[INFO] addressbook: restore done successfully
[INFO] Item changes to be applied locally during restore:
+---------------------------------------|-----------------------------+
| | LOCAL
|
| Source | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR |
TOTAL|
+---------------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| addressbook | 0 | 0 | 756 | 0 | 755
|
+---------------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
It's a bit suspicious that it lists the items as "to be deleted". If you
currently don't have local data, how can it delete something? Perhaps
the logic is (incorrectly) inverted and it will instead add all the
items in your backup?
[INFO] The same incremental changes will be applied to the server
during the next sync.
[INFO] Use -sync refresh-from-client to replace the complete data on
the server.
Why does the INFO line state Use -sync refresh-from-client etc.?
Have
i missed a step? Does server refer to the defymini or evolution?
The text comes from a time when SyncEvolution could only work as a
SyncML client. Nowadays the message should be:
[INFO] The same incremental changes will be applied to the peer during
the next sync.
[INFO] Use --sync refresh-from-local to replace the complete data on the
peer.
"peer" and "from-local" are independent of the role (client or
server)
that SyncEvolution plays in the config.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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