Its my understanding that the Palm backup conduit does not backup data bases
with creator IDs that have a registered conduit. I ran into the same
problem a few months back and ended up having the customer use BackupBuddy
to retrieve the data (and the app). Does anyone know if changing the
conduit preferences will help?
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank S. Fejes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Does Palm desktop software have a full backup?
>On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 07:52:08AM -0700, Alexander Hinds wrote:
>> Frank-
>>
>> The easiest thing to do is to set the backup bit on all your programs
that
>> the user installs and any data files your programs creates.
>>
>> For the former, if you're using MW, it's an option in one of the linker
>> panels. If you're using GCC, it's fairly easy to write a post-build
command
>> that just sets the appropriate bit in the output PRC.
>>
>> For the latter, call PalmOS call DmSetDatabaseInfo() to set the backup
bit
>> for your "data files" after creating them on the palm device. (You could
>> also use this technique to set the backup bit for program files).
>
> Thank you for your help. However, I do set the backup bit for all
>data files programmatically. I cannot seem to find the .pdb files anywhere
>on the hard disk after a HotSync, however. Of course, with backupbuddy
>everything is all peachy, but...I think something this basic should
>be doable with the standard software.
>
>--frank
>
