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wmm · 03-04-03, 12:46 PM

I just had an interesting experience with using Dell's Data Backup utility to back up to the built-in storage. It was an accident; I intended to back up to SD, as I usually do, but I neglected to change the target from its default value. I have basically nothing in the built-in storage (the memory utility tells me I have 21.23 MB free), and the Data Backup says that the backup would be 5308.91 KB. I noticed my error shortly after hitting the Start button, but I decided to let it continue and just move the resulting file to SD when it was done.

At least, that was my intention. The backup proceeded more or less normally with the percentage done figure moving steadily upward until it got to 98%. It took as long to get from 98% to 99% as it had to get from 0% to 98%. After about 3 minutes of sitting at 99%, I gave up and canceled it. I reset the destination to the SD Card, hit Start, and everything worked without a problem. (BTW, the Cancel did delete the backup file from the builtin storage.)

Since I don't intend to use the builtin storage for backups, this little anomaly doesn't bother me, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else might be having problems and wondered if they were the only one.

03-04-03, 12:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
wmm Aximsite Minor League Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 178 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Backing up to built-in storage I just had an interesting experience with using Dell's Data Backup utility to back up to the built-in storage. It was an accident; I intended to back up to SD, as I usually do, but I neglected to change the target from its default value. I have basically nothing in the built-in storage (the memory utility tells me I have 21.23 MB free), and the Data Backup says that the backup would be 5308.91 KB. I noticed my error shortly after hitting the Start button, but I decided to let it continue and just move the resulting file to SD when it was done. At least, that was my intention. The backup proceeded more or less normally with the percentage done figure moving steadily upward until it got to 98%. It took as long to get from 98% to 99% as it had to get from 0% to 98%. After about 3 minutes of sitting at 99%, I gave up and canceled it. I reset the destination to the SD Card, hit Start, and everything worked without a problem. (BTW, the Cancel did delete the backup file from the builtin storage.) Since I don't intend to use the builtin storage for backups, this little anomaly doesn't bother me, but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone else might be having problems and wondered if they were the only one.