Sprite Back up

gps911 · 10-01-05, 04:41 AM

I just purchased Sprite back up. Does anyone have any good pointers to using this software? I see that a lot of people recommend this as the back up to use. Now I am looking for the in and outs to using this.

If you would post and let me know how to set it up and use it?

I returned from lunch today and found my x50v just sitting in the cradle with a blank screen. I tried to power it on and nothing happened. I got that oh crap feeling. I pressed the reset button and it came back to life, but it was just like a hard reset and I had lost everything.

So here I am playing catch up trying to get everything loaded back on and it is early Saturday morning. I am glad that I kept a list of all I had installed.

Ok, enough rambling on.

Thanks in advance for any help that you all can provide.

psionandy · 10-01-05, 05:37 AM

Well if MrK was here he'd suggest this.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...941#post234941

but seeing as he isn't I will instead :)

It's pretty much the way i've got mine set up :approve:

magnolia · 10-01-05, 11:35 AM

I just keep it simple and do a full back up every night at 4 am. I've got a big CF card, keep 3 backups on it at any one time. Peace of mind. The only thing is that my battery is run down in the morning if I don't put it on the charger at night. Small price to pay to make sure I don't lose any data.

Gigi · 10-01-05, 11:51 AM

Unlike many people here, I don't backup daily. I only backup before installs of potentially risky software (stuff that hasn't been used/tested much) and at points at which I think my device is relatively stable and "clean" (temp files, bad registry entries, etc. removed). However, I sync regularly to make sure I don't lose my PIM data.

To me, the problem with backing up daily is that you can only keep so many backups; the older ones are overwritten. You may think you have a stable device, but find out later that one of your newly-installed apps has been causing some problems. If you find this out too late, you will have overwritten some "good", although older backups.

psionandy · 10-01-05, 11:55 AM

I keep the last 3 backups on my sd card... but also use the sprite backup agent pc. That way i can go back days, weeks, or months if i need to.

gps911 · 10-02-05, 12:48 AM

Thanks to all for the information. I have finished my first backup. Lets hope I never have to use it. But I now have a backup that will reload all that I have installed. Thanks again

10-02-05, 01:33 AM

Anybody know when Sprite will be compatible with WM5?

Chetola · 10-02-05, 12:44 PM

I have sprite & think its one of the best programs going, but will sprite be needed with WM5?

psionandy · 10-02-05, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Chetola

I have sprite & think its one of the best programs going, but will sprite be needed with WM5?

I'll still want a scheduled backup util for wm5...

magnolia · 10-02-05, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by Gigi

Unlike many people here, I don't backup daily. I only backup before installs of potentially risky software (stuff that hasn't been used/tested much) and at points at which I think my device is relatively stable and "clean" (temp files, bad registry entries, etc. removed). However, I sync regularly to make sure I don't lose my PIM data.

To me, the problem with backing up daily is that you can only keep so many backups; the older ones are overwritten. You may think you have a stable device, but find out later that one of your newly-installed apps has been causing some problems. If you find this out too late, you will have overwritten some "good", although older backups.

Good point. I have 2 backup routines that serve different purposes: first, I backup regularly so I can restore my PPC without having to be at my computer. This is my daily backup. Then I also will periodically do what you suggest before installing software that could cause problems or when I'm really happy with my setup. These are appropriately named and not overwritten very often.

stevenator65 · 10-02-05, 05:50 PM

I just lost everything b/c my sd card b/c unreadable. My sprint backups were on it and weren't recoverable. My advice: Do a sprint backup to the desktop as well as sd card just in case. And why not also copy a backup periodically onto a cd or thumbdrive just in case the pda and desktop crash? I spent the whole weekend recovering even though I thought I was doing everything correctly, so backup your backups!

Bev M · 10-02-05, 09:04 PM

Of all the tons of valuable information I've gotten here, Sprite backup may be the most valuable. It proved itself today, when the Axim somehow did a hard reset instead of a soft one after I loaded a program (MS Reader, no less!) I had a backup on my PC from yesterday, so even as a novice I got my Axim back the way it was pretty quickly. And, as a couple of people already advised, I have backups on both my PC and on my CF card. So be sure to backup often and in more than one location, unless you don't often change or add things - you never know when you might get a hard reset that you didn't plan for!

stevenator65 · 10-02-05, 10:23 PM

Good point, Bev. As I type I'm using Sprite PC service to make a backup onto my pc. I'm not getting burned twice.

The file created on my pc is a ".pbf" file. There was no option on the sprite pc service to create a self restoring file. How would I restore w/this file? Would I put it on the sd card? I have no idea. Nevermind, I read the instructions and realized how easy it is to restore.

kiwiruss · 10-07-05, 07:39 AM

Ditto on Sprite Backup.
My Ipaq 5455 Wifi dies every week or two and the only way to get it to work again is a hard reset. Luckily Sprite Backup is there to get me working again in a few minutes. The 5455 is a feature packed bevice, but was a little ahead of its time.
Im waiting to get a X51V. (drooling for VGA)

tiger_splash · 10-07-05, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Gigi

Unlike many people here, I don't backup daily. I only backup before installs of potentially risky software (stuff that hasn't been used/tested much) and at points at which I think my device is relatively stable and "clean" (temp files, bad registry entries, etc. removed). However, I sync regularly to make sure I don't lose my PIM data.

To me, the problem with backing up daily is that you can only keep so many backups; the older ones are overwritten. You may think you have a stable device, but find out later that one of your newly-installed apps has been causing some problems. If you find this out too late, you will have overwritten some "good", although older backups.

That is why although I back up to my SD card daily and only keep 7 copies, I also backup to the PC once a day. Those files are not overwritten and I can go back on mine to the day I bought Sprite. At some point I suppose I will need to clean it but for now I let it go once a day. Also, I have a 'clean copy' from the last time I hard reset before I started actively using my Axim stored in Yahoo Briefcase.