AKAJohnDoe

My X50v running Windows Mobile 2003 second edition began having some hardware problems. So, I took a couple of special backups using Sprite Backup. I took one as a self-extracting .exe and the other as a normal Sprite backup file. In both of these two special backups I unchecked the box under exclusion rules to omit persistent storage and also uncheck the exclusion rules themselves. I had to use a 2GB CF card to get enough space to contain them; it thought it woulod be slightly larger than a 1GB card.

So, the questions:

1. Am I correct that this backed up BIS?
2. When the replacement X50V arrives, will I be able to restore BIS?
3. Given that the .exe is compressed and is 28.7MB as saved on my PC, will I run into storage problems during the restore on the PPC? I did not have that much combined storage+program available.
4. Given that I can restore as I plan, will it be more advantageous to use one backup over the other? I realize I would have to install Sprite Backup first in order to restore the native backup.

I also realize that I can simply reinstall, but this seemed like a reasonable time to try out this feature of Sprite. I've done a number of hard resets and restores successfully, but those do not wipe BIS, of course.

Any advice from actual experiences is welcome!

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netsyd

That sounds right... if you unchecked the box for persistent storage in the exclusion rules that should have backed up the BIS.

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ksong12

Yup, sounds right! You could just copy and paste or put it into a .zip file though...

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AKAJohnDoe

99.99% was there. I had an oddity with email accounts; three of six had to be deleted and recreated. And I had made desktop changes in ListPro and SplashID that were regressed on the desktop after ActiveSync. I had anticipated this and previously made backup copies of those two on the desktop. I simply overlaid the regressed desktop copies with the correct copies (the backups) and ActiveSynced again to make it all better.

Update: And of course I had to re-pair BlueTooth as the SSID of the replacement Axim is different.

2nd Update: I subsequently determined that the email problem was entirely a problem at the ISP: Verizon.

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