How to synchronize between evolution-2.x and an LDAP server

Quickly check the “members”:

osynctool --showgroup "sync_ldap_with_evolution"

Group: sync_ldap_with_evolution
Member 2: ldap-sync
Member 1: evo2-sync

And the object types available:

osynctool --showobjtypes "sync_ldap_with_evolution"

Member 1 Objtypes:
        Objtype contact: Enabled
                                 conversion config: VCARD_EXTENSION=Evolution
                                 conversion config: VCARD_EXTENSION=Evolution
Member 2 Objtypes:
        Objtype contact: Enabled
                                 conversion config:
Objtypes for the group:
        contact: Enabled

Ok. Now we can try and synchronize the LDAP server with evolution-2.x:

osynctool --sync "sync_ldap_with_evolution"

If we want to avoid any modification and deletion, we can choose “--slow-sync”. This has not so much to do with just a slower synchronization speed. It rather enforces the change type “ADDED” for each entry of each peer. This is the best way to avoid any data loss even in cases when problems arise:

osynctool --sync "sync_ldap_with_evolution" --slow-sync "contact"

osynctool --sync "sync_ldap_with_evolution" --slow-sync "event"