Is there a free backup utility that works?

[Herbal954]

i use dashwire, the only thing to keep in mind with it is that if you have your contacts backed up to your SIM when you do a restore with dashwire youll endup with dupes in your contact list

[GoodThings2Life]

I'm a huge fan of using MyPhone for my general backup, and I schedule it for once per day so not to waste battery (and actually that once per day is actually per night while it's on the charger anyway). But that doesn't stop me from making my own backup using PIMBackup and ActiveSync because you never know when a cloud service (regardless of vendor) will up and disappear on you.

[rawdikrik]

I just want to chime in and mention that I use MyPhone with a SDCard backup made by Sashimi.

I used to use DashWire, but MyPhone has upped the game and it works very well. U dont have to let it auto sync, and it just sync weekly to make sure im on top of it.

[TheBundo]

I am not going to read through more than the 1st page now, as I've used them all, but I have to say SPB Backup is weel worth the money, and I am no longer willing to pay for Resco or many other things I have paid for. But becuase of the SUPREME IMPORTANCE of full backups before doing installs of software (if you are like me, you install a lot on some days/nights), I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH how important it is to be be able to quickly unwind things if they go sour. The new version of SPB Backup does a full backup in less than 5 minutes, so I do one after every few installs of software, even if their isn't an obvious issue yet. And I ALWAYS do a nightly scheduled backup, which also ends with a soft-reset.

NOT having and properly using this software (SPB Backup, "maybe" Sprite is as good, but evidence is not so far) is the reason for so many posts THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED if people backed up the way I do. All the crying "I'm afraid I'll have to hard-reset", etc., goes AWAY if people follow this procedure. Dashwire, PimBackup, etc., DO NOT SOLVE all the issues, the just keep it from being a complete catostophe. But jusdicious use of SPB Backup makes it PAINLESS, anything you.

I'm making this strong statement because I'm beginning to think that people who ignore this are a leading contributor to the overload this site is seeing.

[redd214]

i use google sync for contacts/calendar, my phone for everything else which backs up nightly, SASHIMI for installs/reg edits, SPB Backup which also backs up right after my phone nightly, and i keep an image of my sd card on 2 different computers.

might be overkill but as stated you never know what could happen. i use my phone for my business and cant afford to lose ANYTHING on it. With how i have it now it would be virtually impossible to ever lose anything.