Blackberry Backups in Linux and Linus’s Potty Mouth
I’ve got a Blackberry 8320. Its used more for checking email, IM, and twitter/identi.ca than actual calling. If it crashed and burned, I wouldn’t really care that much. But…it would be nice to back up just in case. Barry is the open source solution out there and now the folks who made the PocketMac sync app are coming out with a Linux version. Of course, why they are calling it “PocketMac for Blackberry (Linux Edition)” is beyond me. If you are interested in beta testing the Linux version, go register.
Somehow I missed that Linus Torvalds is now blogging. He says its supposed to be a family blog and there isn’t much on it yet, but I hope to see some of his legendary commentary, like what he thinks of the OpenBSD crowd and the Intel e1000e hardware designer. You can read more of his choice words at Wikiquote.
I have the same model phone. I have been able to get it to sync to barry on 32-bit Hardy but not 64-bit Intrepid.
I’ve also installed barry using the packages created by the openSuSE building service(thank you for that!): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ndprojects/Ubuntu804/
It works flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10 amd64, but I didn’t test it on 32bit or hardy. I also tried to get my Palm Z22, blackberry and computer to sync with each other using opensync and multisync0.90, but I couldn’t get the Palm working and the sync with the Blackberry didn’t finish itself after all things were transfered, so I had to kill the process. Strangely enough it also transfered each item again each time and the item that was placed in Google Calendar with an earlier sync was sent again too the Blackberry resulting in two same items at the same time.
There is still a lot of work to be done here.