On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:17:37PM +0100, Raphael J. Schmid wrote: > Hi Chris, > > hopefully it's okay to write you directly about this, but I only found a > -devel mailing list and thought that would probably be even less > appropriate...
The devel list is fine. That is where all the discussion happens. I've been busy lately and have fallen behind on Barry email, but the devel list is the right spot. :-) I'll cc this answer to the list for you. > Anyway, my question is if (and how) the contents of a .tar.gz produced > by the Barry backup GUI could be converted into formats that can then be > read by Evolution or some other software. > > The reason for my question is that my BlackBerry flew out of a > 4th-floor-window and landed on concrete. I had done regular backups > using Barry, but never a sync and now I need the data contained in the > backups and reading them in a text editor isn't really a good option in > the long run... Wow.. quite the Blackberry destruction story! :-) The format of the backup tar.gz files is really just raw record data straight from the device. In theory, it should be possible to do a sync with a backup file, but this need has never come up, and the code isn't designed to handle that. If you plan on getting a new Blackberry, you can restore the old backup into the new device, and do a sync that way. Of course, if you get a new device, you run the risk of hitting some compatibility issues, since Barry doesn't support all of the new devices, such as the Storm. I'd like to make Barry a little more flexible, so that parsing of data does not require a Blackberry, and this seems like a good opportunity. I can't give any deadline promises, but I could try to add sync-from-backup-file functionality, which would help you out of your quandry. Sorry I don't have a more immediate answer. Good luck, - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
