GAMMU-BACKUP(5)                      Gammu                     GAMMU-BACKUP(5)

NAME
       gammu-backup - gammu(1) backup file format.

       The backup format is text file encoded in either ASCII or UCS-2-BE
       encodings.

       This file use ini file syntax, see INI file format <#ini>.

EXAMPLES
       If you will backup settings to Gammu text file, it will be possible to
       edit it. It's easy: many things in this file will be written double -
       once in Unicode, once in ASCII. When you will remove Unicode version
       Gammu will use ASCII on restore (and you can easy edit ASCII text) and
       will convert it according to your OS locale. When will be available
       Unicode version of text, it will be used instead of ASCII (useful with
       Unicode phones - it isn't important, what locale is set in computer and
       no conversion Unicode -> ASCII and ASCII -> Unicode is done).

       You can use any editor with regular expressions function to edit backup
       text file. Examples of such editors can be vim <http://www.vim.org/> or
       TextPad <http://www.textpad.com/> which both do support regular
       expressions.

       Remove info about voice tags

       Find:

          ^Entry\([0-9][0-9]\)VoiceTag = \(.*\)\n

       Replace:

          <blank>

       Change all numbers starting from +3620, +3630, +3660, +3670 to +3620

       Find:

          Type = NumberGeneral\nEntry\([0-9][0-9]\)Text = "\+36\(20\|30\|60\|70\)\n

       Replace:

          Type = NumberMobile\nEntry\1Text = "\+3620

       Change phone numbers type to mobile for numbers starting from +3620,
       +3630,... and removing the corresponding TextUnicode line

       Find:

          Type = NumberGeneral\nEntry\([0-9][0-9]\)Text = "\+36\([2367]0\)\([^\"]*\)"\nEntry\([0-9][0-9]\)TextUnicode = \([^\n]*\)\n

       Replace:

          Type = NumberMobile\nEntry\1Text = "\+36\2\3"\n

       See also:
          Converting file formats <#converting-formats>

Author
       Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>

Copyright
       2009-2015, Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>

1.43.2                         February 9, 2026                GAMMU-BACKUP(5)