plpbackup - Backup and restore for Psion data.

plpbackup [-h] [-v] [-q] [-f] [-b [archive-name]] [-r archive-name] [-V] [-p [host:]port] [long-options] [drive:] [drive:]...

plpbackup provides a facility for backup and restore of Psion drives on your PC.

-h, --help

Display a short help text and exit.

-v, --verbose

Increase verbosity

-q, --quiet

Decrease verbosity

-f, --full

Perform a full backup of the specified drives. If this option is missing, an incremental backup is done based on the archive bit in the file attributes on the Psion. Archive bits of backed-up files are cleared after any successful backup operation.

-b, --backup[=archive-name]

Select backup mode. This mode and restore mode are mutually exclusive. If archive-name is missing, plpbackup automatically selects an archive name using the following scheme: $HOME/plpbackup/PsionUID/T-YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss.tar.gz , where

PsionUID

is the Psion's unique machine id. If connected to a Series 3 which does not provide a machine id, during first backup of that Psion an artificial machine id is calculated from the contents of the Psion's owner-info. This id is then written on the Psion's default drive M: into the file SYS$PT.CFG. and used on subsequent operations.

T

is a single character F or I representing full or incremental respectively.

YYYY

is the current year.

MM

is the current month.

DD

is the current day.

hh

is the current hour.

mm

is the current minute.

mm

is the current second.

-r, --restore=archive-name

Select restore mode. This mode and backup mode are mutually exclusive. Before restoring data, plpbackup asks interactively, if you want to restore individual files or the whole contents of the archive. If you select individual files, plpbackup extracts a listing of the archive's contents into a temporary file and starts an editor with this file. Using the editor, you then can mark the files to restore. The default editor to be used can be specified in the environment variable EDITOR. If this environment variable is not available, the builtin default vi is used.

-V, --version

Display the version and exit

-p, --port=[host:]port

Specify the host and port to connect to (e.g. The port where ncpd is listening on) - by default the host is 127.0.0.1 and the port is looked up in /etc/services. If it is not found there, a builtin value of 7501 is used.

drive:

The Psion's drive character to be selected for backup or restore. Multiple drive characters can be specified. In backup mode, this option can be omitted to have plpbackup scan for all available drives on the Psion.

ncpd(8), plpnfsd(8), plpprintd(8), plpftp(1) and sisinstall(1)

Fritz Elfert