plpbackup(1)
NAME
plpbackup - Backup and restore for Psion data.
SYNOPSIS
plpbackup [-h] [-v] [-q] [-f] [-b [archive-name]] [-r archive-name] [-F] [-V] [-p [host:]port] [long-options] [drive:] [drive:]...
DESCRIPTION
plpbackup provides a facility for backup and restore of
Psion drives on your PC. It also can format Psion drives
before performing a restore.
OPTIONS
- -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 oper
ation. - -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: $HOME/plp backup/PsionUID/T-YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss.tar.gz , where - PsionUID
is the Psion's unique machine id. If con
nected to a Series 3 which does not provide
a machine id, during first backup of that
Psion an artificial machine id is calculated
from the contents of the Psion's owner-info.
This id is then written on the Psion's
default drive M: into the file SYS$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, plp
backup 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 spec
ified in the environment variable EDITOR. If this environment variable is not available, the builtin
default vi is used. - -F, --format
- Format specified drives. This option can be com
bined with restore mode. USE WITH EXTREME CARE! - -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 omit
ted to have plpbackup scan for all available drives
on the Psion.
FILES SEE ALSO
ncpd(8), plpnfsd(8), plpprintd(8), plpftp(1) and sisin
stall(1)
AUTHOR
- Fritz Elfert