4700 & Recovery

sharps4065 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 19, 2006 Posts: 37

I was going to tag this onto the "TomTom Hanging on 4700" thread as I run a 4700 (which does get hot with TomTom but hasn't locked yet) and getting TomTom running on it almost made me give up the will to live.

And it's the last part of the last sentence that is what this is all about. I live in constant fear of a major screw-up or repair that will force me to re-live the previous horrors.

So I'm looking to image/backup my 4700 on a regular basis. Sprite Backup seems to be a popular option but does this backup enough? At work I image the PC's I manage in case of crash & re-install so should I be looking at Sprite Clone - or something similar - to achieve the same?

What's the advice & opinion of the board

Clive

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

BodgerBaz · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

I also have a 4700 and have extensively used the pre-installed Sprite Backup software and have always found it works perfectly.

It restores everything I've ever wanted it to.

I've even used the backup, cold booted the PDA then went straight into the restore process and it brought everything back. All you need to do is change the time zone and reset the clock. You then have an identical setup as before.

Doddle Wink

Trevor1234 · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

Hi sharps4065
I agree with everything that Mullet has said. I use Sprite Premier Backup (I didn’t know about Backup Manager before I purchased Sprite) and it works admirably.

I could sit here now if I wished and do a Hard Reset ( The worst case Scenario for a PDA) yet have it all up and running again in just a few minutes. Every thing will be restored, Bluetooth settings, programmes, the lot.
Yep, everyone should have a Backup programme.

By the way, this is my 200th Posts. Allot of it may have been drivel but some I hope has been helpful to someone out there. I think I will pour myself a drink.
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BodgerBaz · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:

Congratulations Trevor Cheers!

Mullet, can I just add that Sharps doesn't need to buy any additional software because Sprite Backup is part of the original install and works perfectly well.

Quantum · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

There are two issues to worry about:
- Software bugs messing up your files;
- Battery loss eliminating RAM.

With WM2003 the Winduhs Registry is stupidly stored in RAM, so all customization and installed programs are lost upon battery loss. WM5 ostensibly stores all this in flash now, so is non-volatile.

So maybe WM5 is advisable, but still back up to protect from software bugs.

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

BodgerBaz
I keep forgetting about that. Embarassed

Quantum
Never had any issues with s/w bugs in that way. If the backup is prior and clean this wouldnt matter when restored.
The registry values are written to storage and in turn back to whatever the origin was at the time of backup, so RAM isnt an issue.

Both counts are what backup software is all about Laughing

SimonCatlin · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

For those of using Sprite on WM5 have lost the ability to backup the files to PC. We now need to save them to the Storage card and then back them up later on...
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reteb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2006 Posts: 40

I use Sprite backup (v5.1) and it backs up everything to the PC fine. You can choose to only backup to a storage card if you wish but I just schedule a daily backup to the PC - it can't be much simpler.

Reteb

alan_sh · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

One point:

Sprite backup (which I use too) can backup the Ipaq file store and can create self restoring executables - but you must turn them on.

You may need to restore the file store if something overwrote it (rare but possible)

You should have self extracting executables so that you don't need to install Sprite first !!!!

Alan

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

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