I Don't Understand How To Back Things Up...!!

[JBabey]

Originally Posted by haus

Sorry about that - my Verizon XV6700 came with an Outlook 2002 and Activesync 4.1 CD-ROM, and I thought all 6700s (from Sprint as well) came with the same stuff. You sure Outlook isn't on your Activesync disk?

The other backup recommendations will work better in general...but you had asked specifically about contacts, email, tasks, etc. which Activesync will back up on your PC via outlook if you sync your 6700 with your PC.

no the sprint ones come with outlook and activesync also. most people just ditch the sh*t though and go about their merry lives until disaster strikes. Then they come in all pissed off that they lost their data and we go to war nicely explaining that its the customers responsibility to

NOT OWN A PHONE SMARTER THAN YOU

yet i digress... the pimbackup is dope, its on r1.5 now, and the author is on top of his game with this program... puts the commercial ones to shame in terms of strictly PIM

simplest method in your situation if you can get into the file explorer is to copy the PIM.VOL file to your storage card

good luck

[bludevlsi]

Originally Posted by luv2chill

Nah, you're not screwed.


http://www.ppcgeeks.com/ppcgeeks-ftp...sed-t2497.html

So use it to download PPCPIMBackup as naigaboy suggested. It is an awesome free app and will do what you need with ease.

i cant seem to find it listed in the directory. can someone help

[bludevlsi]

nevermind i found it. took me a while

[bludevlsi]

ok i downloaded it and tried to run it and it says not a valid win32 application. any ideas?

[luv2chill]

You need to copy it over to your 6700 and run it from there--it's meant to back your stuff up to an SD card (hope you have one).

[bludevlsi]

ah gotcha. yes i have one thanks

[bludevlsi]

it worked thanks

[BobC]

PPCPimBackup looks like a great app for backing up all your Outlook data, but does anyone have a recommendation for a program to back up EVERYTHING - including customizations, tweaks, owner info, etc.

Older versions of Active Sync had a backup/restore feature that backed up everything on the device. I see that MicroSoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to delete that feature - quite contrary to their usual "everything including the kitchen sink" bloat-ware approach.

So tht leaves me searching for a decnt backup program - preferably freeware - that will add that functionality back into Active Sync.....

[bmtbandit]

I use SPB Backup. It is not freeware, but it backs things up quite nicely to the memorey card.

[BobC]

Yeah, it seems like SPB or Sprite are about all anyone carries and they're about 20 bucks to download (disk not included).

Seems kinda spendy for something that used to be a built-in Active Sync freebie. Anybody know of any good freeware backup utilities?