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Originally Posted by mstevens

SPB Backup (as well as Sprite and, I presume, Resco) backs up EVERYTHING. If you do a hard reset then restore from an SPB Backup archive, you would have no way of knowing that the hard reset had ever occurred. Your phone would have all your contacts, emails, texts, registry edits, Google Maps/Footprints/whatever other program favorites, settings, etc. exactly as when you started the backup. [edit] Similarly, if you back up one phone and restore to another (of the same model and ROM), you would only be able to tell the two phones apart by looking at the serial numbers or distinguishing scratches.

It'll also backup and restore mistakes and errors, including bad regedits that cause problems. That's another reason frequent backups are so important: they allow you to go back to a time before a problem appeared and restore the setup from then.

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Yeah I've been trying to use Sprite but when it resets/reboots the phone it says backup failed in the log. I'm about to give PIMbackup another try for I accidently canceled it before. Although I'd rather use Sprite or SPB since it seems that those programs backup EVERYTHING, which is what I need! I don't think PIMbackup will backup all my apps and stuff like the google maps favs.. Read my other post on this thread above this one too. I'm also wondering what options people usually select when backing up etc..