Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup. Can't decide which one to go with. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks for the comments!

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I can only give you my experience w/ SPB. I've been using it about as long as I've had my PPC (~18 months) and have never had a problem with it. I suspect it works much as the other two do, by creating an .exe of all of your device settings, apps, contacts, pix, etc and storing it on your SD card. One of the interesting features of SPB is the ROM Upgrade mode. This allows you to restore your device when you flash a new ROM, with the exception of settings unique to your previous ROM version. Useful if you plan on doing any ROM flashing.

Whatever product you decide on, it's important you use it regularly. I have mine set to do a complete backup of my device every Monday @ 7AM. The time to find out you don't have an up to date back up is NOT when you've just flashed the latest and greatest ROM for your device and obliterated your 200+ contacts, email settings, etc

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I'll have to agree with Geekcop, SPB backup is the winner for me.

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I use all three, and they are all safe and do the job well with minor differences. I say use the free trials and see whatcha like man. I rank them in this order:
Resco
Spb
Sprite

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same here, plus 1 for the the little doggy on his or her avatar..lol, j/k HBenz

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On my 800W, the default Sprite backup showed the backups as good, but only once was the restore complete - errored out most of the time.

SPBBackup worked fine on the 800w.

Resco Backup always froze.

On my Touch Pro:

SPB Backup takes up to 30 minutes and at the end displays an error message indicating the backup was not good.

Resco Backup - never tried it on the TP.

I am now using the paid version of Sprite and it works fine.

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

SPB backup all the way

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

I am in the process of testing all three plus SK tools has a BU feature.

The new version of Sprite is awesome (I never liked it in the past) I did a restore from one TouchPro to a second one recently & the second one also had a different ROM (that is definitely the hardest test you can put a BU system though).

I did a current BU of the first system with both SPB & Sprite. When I restored the SPB BU, the new phone ran but TF3D refused to load (which surprised me as I've never had a problem with SPB before). I hard reset it & then restored the Sprite BU & the restore was absolutely perfect that time.

I have the latest version of Resco, but I don't totally trust it at this time. When I use it to BU my current system, it ends with a whole bunch of errors. Other people are reporting the same problems with it. Resco has a nice feature set but I wouldn't rely on it as my only BU.

~~John

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For some more detail, read post 32 here

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Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

i use sprite backup. never failed me.

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Sprite has failed me in the past (on a restore) & I stopped using it for a long time because of that. This latest version is killer however & I'm real glad I gave it a second chance.

~John

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

I think what can be learned by all these posts on BU programs is that you need to figure out what works best for your particular system. Posts that state things like "SPB is the best hands down" are not only useless really, they are flat out untrue for a lot of people.


All these programs have free trials & you can basically try them all out that way. The problem is, until you actually do a full restore from one of them you won't really know if they are 100% compatible with your particular system. Although Resco works for some people, it gave 92 errors the first time I ran it on my absolutely perfect system which was backed up with SPB & Sprite with no errors at all. Although SPB always did perfect restores for me in the past, it failed numerous times attempting to restore to a different TP with a different ROM where Sprite worked perfectly for this.

~John

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

Thanks for the all the comments, they have been very helpful!

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

cool beans man, let us know what you pick later

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I have only use sprite, so far just successfull backups havent done any restores yet.

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SPB works great..

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A successful b/u is only half of the equation, however

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

This is exactly the kind of useless statement I was referring to in my previous post. Making a flat out statement like this while providing no details whatever doesn't really help anybody.

I used SPB exclusively when I was using my old Titan's (I had four of them) & it worked quite well & I did a bunch of system restores.

I have had a lot less luck using SPB in my two TouchPro's however. Trying to do a total system restore from one device to the other has not worked well at all with SPB (TF3D completely refused to load after a restore) but the same system worked perfectly when restored with a Sprite BU made at the same time as the SPB BU.

~John

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me either, the sprite backup is good enough..

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I have never encountered a proble using spb, but I have with Sprite. I could have been doing something wrong, but it is spb for me.

*Very easy to use
*Nice touch interface
*Fast and Reliable
*Schedule backup feature is nice as well

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LOL, yea the second half of the equation is the one that really counts. Unless a BU program will do a succesful full system restore 100% of the time it is pretty useless IMHO

~John

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

I actually use a combo of SKTools to backup the main brunt of my PPC (non storage card, registry, db's ect), and spb backup also does a full backup of the unit as well. I WOULD use sktools to backup the entire thing, but i can't selectivly restore files, or selectivly backup files on the sd card.

I might give sprite backup a shot though. Can never be too careful.

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For the record, just in case anyone is still wondering, Sprite Backup is some of the worst software engineering I've ever seen. It's buggy, it has virtually no error-checking, and it basically throws itself into a backup process on a wing and a prayer, hoping that it makes it to the end.

The kicker? I had several "successful" backups from Sprite stored on my Touch Pro memory card. I did a hard reset and tried to restore the latest, only to find that it wasn't a valid executable. None of them were. Sprite Backup TOLD me my data was safe, but was only leading me to believe it was so I could wipe all of my data and lose it all.

DO NOT BUY SPRITE BACKUP.

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

I've been using Sprite for years. Earlier versions were very buggy and I had some of the same results at the last poster, but since v6.x I've been happy and have had good results.
Not trying to argue, just noting an alternate observation.

Re: Spb, Resco, or Sprite Backup
 

I'm using Sprite and have restored a few times after hard reset with no problems. I've tried SPB before and it seems to take much longer for the backup process so I went with Sprite.

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+1 for Sprite Backup. Great program especially if you like to flash a lot of ROMS.

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I have had issues with Sprite, but SPB Backup has always worked great for me

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SPB Backup worked fine on my 800W, but not on the TP or TP2. Sprite Backup is what I use on the TP and TP2 without any problems at all.

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The version of SPB that I used on my Mogul wouldn't work right on the TP2, but I was a few revisions old. The new version is awesome, MUCH faster than before, and works on WM 6.5 too

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I've used all 3 and I'd have to say Spb. It doesn't have as many features as Resco BUT it seemed to be more stable to me and got the job done better (especially restores).

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My TP2 recently developed an over-heating problem and was replaced yesterday. The restore was done using SPB with no problem. StyleTap of course wants to be registered again.