2006-08-21: Keith Bennett dixit:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, EV wrote:
> > If you have the computer info in the path DB then you can
> > ignore it for downloading, in the same way as we will surely
> > allow, in fdb-based downlading, to strip the some prefix of
> > the paths.  Therefore, this only adds flexibility and costs
> > almost nothing.  If the computer info is not stored, then
> > there is no way for figuring out where the tunes came from
> > originally.
> 
> Okay. I guess it doesn't hurt. The attached patch implements
> this.

Thanks a lot.  This will make things much easyer in my rather
complex home setting (two RK's and three computers where tunes 
can mainly come from: mine, my wife's and a third one devoted to
unattended FM radio broadcast recordings).

> > Don't understand.  How do you use the new fdb functionality
> > for this purpose?
> 
> riocp -U fdb.gz
> 
> All you have to do is make a backup of the DB file. It can then
> be restored from this backup as shown above.

O.K.  I hadn't notice the two new options (-F, -U).

> Currently it only performs the uploads. If people wish, I could
> add an option to delete files not contained in the DB file so
> that the device is returned to the exact state it was in when
> the DB file was last modified.

That can certainly be useful.  So far I'm using lkarmafs for
unattendedly keep into my RK only the latest N (~50) FM radio
recordings but, with this delete option, the path DB file might
make things a bit easyer.

Best,
EV.


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