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20 \- Barry Project's backup program for the BlackBerry handheld
27 is a GUI application for backing up and restoring Blackberry handheld
30 The application allows for filtering of databases for both backup
31 and restore, so not all databases need to be backed up at once,
34 Backups and configuration files are stored by default in the user's
35 home directory, under ~/.barry/backup/PIN. The backup files are
36 compressed tarballs containing specially named files for each record
42 Enables low level protocol debug output written to stdout/stderr.
44 .B \-\-display=DISPLAY
45 Specify which X display to use.
49 Show summary of options.
52 Show summary of options.
55 Backups are stored in tar format, compressed with gzip. Backup files
56 are named with the following pattern:
58 PIN-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.tar.gz
60 Each record is appended to the tar file using the following pattern
63 DBname/RecordID RecordTypeID
65 That is, the database name is used as the directory name, and
66 the filename contains the record ID and record type ID separated
69 Database names can contain spaces.
71 Record IDs are generally unique, but not all Blackberry devices
72 mandate this, so it is possible, but rare, to have two records
73 in the tar file with the same filename. This is ok. The only problem you'd
74 see is if you expanded such a tar file to a filesystem. The restore
75 process just reads in the filename sequentially and writes them to
76 the device, so duplicate record IDs are not a problem.
81 is part of the Barry project.
82 This manual page was written by Chris Frey.
85 http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/index.php