1BARRYBACKUP(1)              General Commands Manual             BARRYBACKUP(1)
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NAME

6       barrybackup  -  Barry Project's backup program for the BlackBerry hand‐
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SYNOPSIS

10       barrybackup [-?][-d]
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DESCRIPTION

13       barrybackup is a GUI application for backing up  and  restoring  Black‐
14       berry handheld databases.
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16       The  application  allows for filtering of databases for both backup and
17       restore, so not all databases need to be backed up  at  once,  nor  all
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20       Backups  and  configuration  files  are stored by default in the user's
21       home directory, under ~/.barry/backup/PIN.   This  destination  can  be
22       changed in the config dialogs, per device.
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24       The  backup  files  are  compressed tarballs containing specially named
25       files for each record of the databases.
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OPTIONS

28       -d     --debug-output Enables low level protocol debug  output  written
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31       --display=DISPLAY
32              Specify which X display to use.
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34       -?     --help Show summary of options.
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36       -h, --help
37              Show summary of options.
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TAR FORMAT

41       Backups  are  stored in tar format, compressed with gzip.  Backup files
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44            PIN-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS[-tag_name].tar.gz
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46       The tag name is optional and is used to name a particular backup.
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48       Each record is appended to the tar file using the following pattern for
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53       That is, the database name is used as the directory name, and the file‐
54       name contains the record ID and record type ID separated by a space.
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56       Database names can contain spaces.
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58       Record IDs are generally unique, but not all Blackberry devices mandate
59       this,  so it is possible, but rare, to have two records in the tar file
60       with the same filename.  This is ok.  The only problem you'd see is  if
61       you expanded such a tar file to a filesystem.  The restore process just
62       reads in the filename sequentially and writes them to  the  device,  so
63       duplicate record IDs are not a problem.
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AUTHOR

67       barrybackup is part of the Barry project.  This manual page was written
68       by Chris Frey.
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SEE ALSO

71       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
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76                                 July 28, 2009                  BARRYBACKUP(1)
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