Hi, I have the same problem (and also never was able to get mutlisync to work). I use rsync instead. Here's what I do.
First, I am not in gnome on either machine, and more specifically, make sure that gconfd-2 and the evolution programs aren't running. I do this by running evolution --force-shutdown and gconftool-2 --shutdown on both machines (and waiting a bit after). I then run (on HOST2 in my home directory) rsync -aurv --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh HOST1:.evolution/ .evolution/ rsync -aurv --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh .evolution/ HOST1:.evolution/ You have to sync the .gconf/app/evolution/ directories too, and you do this in the same way (i.e., replace .evolution/ by .gconf/app/evolution/ everywhere in the above two rsync commands). When you're done, you end up with the newest files on either machine on both machines. Of course you should put all this into a script (for example, I've created a custom one that syncs these and various project directories at the same time). A word of caution: BACK UP BOTH .evolution DIRECTORIES BEFORE YOU TRY THIS. Another word of caution: BACK UP BOTH .evolution DIRECTORIES BEFORE YOU TRY THIS. Also, you can forget the --rsh argument if you don't care about security (I wouldn't). Finally, I've done this while gnome was running (usually when I'm not paying attention, and not intentionally). The evolution --force-shutdown and gconftool-2 --shutdown seem to do what they're supposed to do, and I've never noticed a mismatch between what evolution-data-server and/or gconfd cache and what appears on the other disk, BUT, you get no guarantee that some other application won't start these up again while you're doing the sync. Good Luck On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 21:09 +0300, Antonis Christofides wrote: > Hi, > > I want to synchronize address book between work and home, through the > network. I read that this can be accomplished with multisync. I tried > with multisync, but couldn't get it to work. (I can go to the details > about what I did, but it's probably totally wrong, because I was > guessing). I couldn't find any documentation. Could you point me to > some instructions on how to do it? > > Another thing I tried was to bring addressbook.db from work into > the .evolution/addressbook/local/system/ directory at home. However, > the address book was still empty after I did that. Could you explain to > me why? > > I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 with its packaged evolution, 2.10.1. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
