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After the ppc restore, what comes of the Outlook data since backup?

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RogerD - 27 Oct 2005 23:58 GMT
Hello all...

I've been searching all over for an answer to this scnerio before it
happens, but have not found it.. maybe you folks could offer insight, before
it happens!

Here is the setup...
PPC with 2003 phone Activesync'd to both desktop (tasks, notes) and mobile
exchange server 2003 (appointments, mail, contacts).
Server sync while connected to pc set to 5 mins, mobile ervery 15 mins.
Desktop is continious.  In short, I'm always up to date.  I run Sprite
backup daily at 3:3am.

Scnerio:
Sprite makes a backup at 3:30am on 10/26/05 to the SD card.
By 6pm that same day new emails came via server sync, have been replied to,
deleted, new appointments made both on the ppc and server by other works at
their workstations, contacts modified, added both on pda and at
workstations, and whatever else you can think of.

6:30pm total battery loss of power, or someother reason for a hard re-set.

Now the question..

I reset the time on the ppc, enter the former device name and restore file
from 3:30am.   After it reboots (not connected to my desktop) it is gooing
connect to the mobile server and perform a sync.  When the server sees all
those new and/or edited appoinments, contacts, email, etc missing from the
ppc will the server assume I've deleted them and remove them from the
server, OR is mobile server smart enough to know it last sync'd at 6:15pm
and "sees" something on the ppc saying last sync was 3:15am and to push all
the new stuff back to the ppc as if it had never been sync'd since 3:15am?

How does it handle the desktop notes, tasks, etc the next time I drop it in
the cradle?

Thanks in advance, and if you know of a FAQ, website, etc that speaks of
this info please point me to it.

Roger
Steph Peters - 28 Oct 2005 23:56 GMT
>Scnerio:
>Sprite makes a backup at 3:30am on 10/26/05 to the SD card.
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>and "sees" something on the ppc saying last sync was 3:15am and to push all
>the new stuff back to the ppc as if it had never been sync'd since 3:15am?

I can't point you at a reference for this, but I can tell you what has
happened when I have done the same thing for appointments, contacts, notes
and tasks.  I don't sync email so don't know what happens there.

On connecting the restored device the existing partnership is recognised; I
don't have to set up a new one or change the device name.  However the PC
will tell me that none of the item types have ever been synchronised before
and ask how to proceed, at which point I tell it to combine data from both
sources.  This always seems to take some time, but works as I'd like it to,
i.e. everything once in each place, including the newer stuff onto the PPC.
One little exception is that two of my contacts always get doubled (notably
ones with non-ASCII characters like umlauts).  ActiveSync asks me whether to
delete one of each of these as duplicates.

My advice is take a backup of your pst file on your desktop before trying
the connection.  Then you can always get back to where you are now if it
doesn't work out.
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