What's the best backup program?

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by darnell

I went and tried Sprite, which is to me #2 in terms of features

What features is it missing??

~John

[jmorton10]

Man, this is getting weirder & weirder.

10 seconds after I completed the BU, without changing anything, I told it to "verify the last BU". When it got done running it must have listed 100 files that it claimed where "in the BU but not on the device"

WTF, I didn't change or delete anything..........

~John

[darnell]

If 92 failed in the backup, 92 should have failed verification. For me, the number of errors during backup matched the number that failed in verification.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by darnell

If 92 failed in the backup, 92 should have failed verification. For me, the number of errors during backup matched the number that failed in verification.

Yea, that's probably what it said. I didn't really care', as I would never trust this program at this point anyway.

I will probably delete it for now & wait for the bugs to be worked out, I don't think its quite ready for prime time (although I do like the feature set)

~John

[HBOOT]

dUDE, don t be quick to judge.If you like sprite or spb that is cool, I too like them and use them as well. On the other hand I do not get any errors with Resco, could be your settings or something in there. What version are you using? where do you have it installed?I just did a hard reset for the first time yesterday and all was well. i will be doing a back up in couple days and I doubt it will error out. Do you guys stop applications when backing up?

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by hbenz2008

dUDE, don t be quick to judge.If you like sprite or spb that is cool, I too like them and use them as well. On the other hand I do not get any errors with Resco, could be your settings or something in there. What version are you using? where do you have it installed?I just did a hard reset for the first time yesterday and all was well. i will be doing a back up in couple days and I doubt it will error out. Do you guys stop applications when backing up?

1. the newest version

2. main memory

3. yes

[HBOOT]

version 2.01.4?doing a BU now.

[darnell]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

1. the newest version

2. main memory

3. yes

Ditto. And backup programs usually soft reset before starting, so #3 is pretty much a given. I downloaded straight from Resco's site.

If a backup program is getting errors based on my configuration and usage patterns, it simply means I should not be using that backup program.

Originally Posted by hbenz2008

140 MB back up with Resco took 5 min 33 seconds, one error . I checkedit it was a cookie, I didnt care, I deleted it. All ok.

But I want my cookies...

Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

i just used htc backup, full system and i just used it this morning. every contact, app, icon ect. put back where it was. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54193

Wish I knew about that sooner and will have to try it. Given it does not have all the features of Sprite backup I'll still keep using Sprite as my primary backup program though.

Originally Posted by jmorton10

I will probably delete it for now & wait for the bugs to be worked out, I don't think its quite ready for prime time (although I do like the feature set)

~John

Regarding Resco and updates, I'll mention this now and didn't want to say it earlier, because I'm not trying to flat out trash Resco. I use several Resco tools that work great, especially Resco Explorer. But the Resco Audio Recorder didn't work with many screen resolutions for a time and Resco had been notified about it and promised an update. The first public record of Resco being notified of the issue and promising an update was February 2008. It took Resco till November to release that updated version which is their current version 4.51. (I mean we're not talking about a device ROM update, 9 months!)

So I treat Resco products as I really should treat all, if it does not work 100% when I try it I'm moving on to something else.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by hbenz2008

could be your settings or something in there.

Would you explain this statement a little, I don't really understand how a setting I made should interfere with a backup of the entire system. As far as "something in there", something like what ?? (& it really makes no difference what it is, if the BU program can't handle it then it is not a very good system IMHO)

There really shouldn't be one thing I can set that will interfere with a full system BU completing correctly. Even if the system was all f***** up, the BU program should still back it up & not throw off errors that don't make any sense.......

~John

[darren.wlsn1]

i just used htc backup, full system and i just used it this morning. every contact, app, icon ect. put back where it was. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54193