[kdepim-users] Re: Syncing data between computers

[Werner Joss]

Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011, um 10:09:24 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> Hallo
> 
> I am currently developing a solution to sync home data between
> different computers (between different computers and my server). 

my proposal: don't reenvent the wheel :)
- take a look at already existing solutions.
e.g. dropbox (commercial, free as in beer, however) is ideal for me, here.
owncloud will be similar, and totally free, once matured.
maybe you can help there ?

> In
> the old days with fix computers I did this via NFS but with the
> laptops this is no longer possible. Laptop users need their data even
> if they are not in range of my network.
> 
> With this I came to the akonadi stuff. The database is stored in
> .local/cache/akonadi. Can I exclude this data from sync without
> loosing relevant information?

IMHO, yes.
akonadi is only a local cache, NOT the data source itself.
(that will be std.vcf, google or whatever other source akonadi can use).

werner
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