Backing up text messages - Page 2

psweitzer · #11 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by sebo

i like PIM. been using it for a few months, it has everything i need. it's set to automatically run at 5am and copies the backup to storage card. also very easy to restore all your messages, contacts, etc in a few seconds.

best of all. it's free and a really compact app.

I agree PIM is a great app... I use it occasionally as well.
But keep in mind that a lot of people have had corrupted SD card issues as well.

datapusher · #12 (**permalink**) 05-09-2008, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by psweitzer

I agree PIM is a great app... I use it occasionally as well.
But keep in mind that a lot of people have had corrupted SD card issues as well.

People are having corrupted SD cards in gheneral or as a result of using PIM?

sebo · #13 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by datapusher

People are having corrupted SD cards in gheneral or as a result of using PIM?

these are probably people using those cheap ebay or cheap brand cards. i've owned many sandisk cards from 512 to a few GBs and never have i had a problem with corrupted files on storage card.

i always suggest paying extra for a little better card if you're storing sensitive data, but i also suggest not using it as the only method for backup.. occasionally i copy and make a mirror of my storage card to pc just in case. plus you never know when you're going to loose the phone or have it stolen. at least you can restore to a new phone most of the stuff if you had a mirrored image located somewhere else.

i'm thinking of using ftp option in sprite backup to save the files somewhere remotely.

friguy3 · #14 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 08:54 AM

Ive been using PIM backup for over a year with several different SD cards and on my 6700 and now on my 6800 and have never had a problem. All it is doing is copying information from the phone and saving it into a file. There is no reason it should corrupt the card if it was working otherwise.

psweitzer · #15 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by datapusher

People are having corrupted SD cards in gheneral or as a result of using PIM?

I never meant to imply that PIM was causing any kind of SD card issues...
I was simply stating that a lot of people have had SD card corruption so using PIM and storing your backup on your SD card would be useless if this happened...

Sorry for any confusion...