METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION INCLUDING FILE SYSTEM ABSTRACTION

A method, apparatus and computer program product for data synchronization between a first file system and a second file system. File systems may be associated with handheld devices, memory devices, local or networked computer memory, or the like. Interaction with the first and second file systems follow first and second syntaxes, respectively. At least one file system is identified, for example based on a file path prefix thereof. One or more translation modules are selected based on the identification, each translation module configured to translate between a file system syntax and a generic syntax. Appropriate aspects of a set of operations for performing the data synchronization are translated using appropriate translation modules.