https://github.com/pandruszkow/palm-backup

Windows Batch script to back up the Palm Desktop data directories and files into an archive
https://github.com/pandruszkow/palm-backup

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Windows Batch script to back up the Palm Desktop data directories and files into an archive

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pandruszkow/palm-backup
• Owner: pandruszkow
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2021-06-17T10:28:01.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-17T11:03:33.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-06T17:30:26.247Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: backup-script, batch-script, palmos, windows
• Language: Batchfile
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• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# palm-backup

A Windows Batch script to back up the Palm Desktop data directories and files into an archive using 7-Zip. I consider this script feature-complete, if a bit clunky to configure.

Configurable options:

- Where the Palm Desktop application is installed (where the data is)

- Where the backup should go

- The HotSync profile name

- Archive compression level

- Whether or not a copy of the backup script is to be included in the archive

All backups are timestamped with the ISO8601-formatted datetime, and have a fixed prefix. The resulting archives amount to around 500 KiB on my machine, so keeping a full backup history should take up a negligible amount of space.

This script was only tested with Palm Desktop 4.1.4 as this is what I have installed. Feedback welcome on other versions.

Restoring from this script has **not** been tested yet, but I assume it would be as easy as unpacking all the PDB/PDC files manually from the archive, and applying to a freshly factory reset device using a newly installed copy of Palm Desktop.

Potential new features:

- Pass in the HotSync profile name via a batch parameter

- Allow specifying a custom path and/or filename template via a batch parameter

- Make archive extension configurable in the config section

- Make the path to 7zip configurable in the config section

- Change "should include a copy of the script" into an optional batch flag, and stop including it by default