back up software

[wILLk0r3 818]

I will chime in as well. In my experience, using a TP, SPB was a pain in the rear. In the time it took me to fix what it messed up, I could have done it the old-school way and re-install everything manually. On the other hand, I decided to purchase Sprite Backup. Now let me tell you, I backup/restore many many times a week because I'm always trying out new ROMs. I haven't had a SINGLE problem with it. I love it. If you're gonna flash/restore as often as I do, or AT ALL for that matter, I would check out Sprite Backup. I don't know how I've lived without it. In the end, your mileage may vary. =)

[bobby yarrow]

Question about backup restoration:

Yesterday I flashed my ROM for the second time ever. I had backed up using SPB. I restored using SPB's 'new ROM' option, and it made the new ROM fail. I would get the splash screen of the old ROM, and then an essentially frozen screen.

Basically the ONLY thing I want to back up are my email settings. Accounts, signatures, that's it. It'd be nice if the backup returned the 3rd party apps I have installed (and authorized them); SPB installed them but they're unauthorized now.

Is there a way to back up email account settings just within the OS, without using backup software at all? Thanks.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by wILLk0r3 818

In the time it took me to fix what it messed up, I could have done it the old-school way and re-install everything manually. On the other hand, I decided to purchase Sprite Backup. Now let me tell you, I backup/restore many many times a week because I'm always trying out new ROMs. I haven't had a SINGLE problem with it.

Same here. If you search my old posts (I'm to busy to do it), you will find where I did a TON of testing of all the different BU systems really TRYING to make them fail. When I had my Titan/Mogul systems, I thought SPB was awesome but I started this extensive testing because it was not restoring correctly in my TP's.

I used one of my three TP's & flashed/hard rest etc continuously & kept restoring different BU files to see how well all the different systems worked. I did things like restoring a BU from one phone to a completely different phone running a different ROM. I was able to get that exact scenario working perfectly a bunch of times with Sprite (using restore level one). That will NEVER work correctly with SPB.

I bet by the time I was done I had probably done close to 100 restores & I was completely sold on Sprite by that time. One thing I found was, if the BU file is relatively small SPB seems to work OK. Once it gets larger (I have a BU file I use for testing that is over 200 megs), SPB fails rather consistently doing restores.

As far as speed, I could care less how long it takes as long as I know I can count on it.

~John

[iggy]

Originally Posted by bobby yarrow

Question about backup restoration:

Yesterday I flashed my ROM for the second time ever. I had backed up using SPB. I restored using SPB's 'new ROM' option, and it made the new ROM fail. I would get the splash screen of the old ROM, and then an essentially frozen screen.

Basically the ONLY thing I want to back up are my email settings. Accounts, signatures, that's it. It'd be nice if the backup returned the 3rd party apps I have installed (and authorized them); SPB installed them but they're unauthorized now.

Is there a way to back up email account settings just within the OS, without using backup software at all? Thanks.

I agree with this, I only need my EMail account settings and Owner info backed up is their not a simple registery that can be exported??

[studentjunk]

email account settings and owner info can be backup up with sashimi. There is a thread on the TP forum about it too. I believe the owner info is here: HKCU\ControlPanel\Owner

The email needs to be done by xml I think (Sashimi has an xml editor with it called Makisu).

For you Sprite lovers, I just tried it a few days ago. Is there a way to do a customized, scheduled backup? When I scheduled it, I could only get it to do a full backup. I hard reset about once a week or two and I only want to backup 10% of the files. I'd rather delete the rest.

[sprintgirl]

I agree Sprite is the best. U can use Myphone too. Or if u just want ur contacts and settings copy the pim.vol from the root of my device to ur sd card when u get ur new one rename original pim and then copy pim frm sd card but leave it pim.vol...soft reset. good luick