With the STORE-SOURCE command you can archive the current apax project to the SD card of a SIMATIC PLC. The project can be retrieved again from the SD card with the command RESTORE-SOURCE.
The format is a standard PKZIP format so that you can use any common zip/unzip tool if you get the archive directly from the SD card.
To reduce the size of the archive the file .gitignore is applied. This means that the files listed in the .gitignore file will not be included in the archive. Notice that only simple file matching (like .csv) is supported. Pattern matching (like **/*.csv) will be available in a future version.
Optionally, you can set a password to encrypt the archive with the option --zip-password.
You can use the --output option to store the archive on the local drive instead of saving it to the SD card. This is useful in cloud scenarios.