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I just wish the newest version of Sprite Backup were as spare and efficient as the slightly older versions. I tried to use this newer version for a week, but just couldn't stand the incredibly long delays while it scanned and showed me silly graphics, so I went back to an older copy and have of course had no problems with that. I just used it again the other day when a new piece of software went sour on me and forced a hard reset, as soft resets refused to complete. In three minutes all was normal, and I connecte to an Internet time server to synch my X5's clock using CityTime.
And to the question regarding program installations; I set Sprite up to backup absolutely everything to SD memory, registry, databases, files and all. I choose the compressed self-extracting EXE option, and have 'stop programs before backup' set as the default. Takes about 3 minutes to backup, slightly longer than if uncompressed but half the storage card space used as well. I have it automatically name files by date, and keep about a half-dozen on hand always just in case I miss something from a few days back. Selective restoration of the odd file is very fast and easy, as is restoring the whole registry or a database.
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