WARNING - MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THE DEADLINES ON THESE CONTESTS, THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME

The Prize:
5 copies of Sprite Backup from Sprite Software

How to win:
Visit Sprite's Website and find their "Best practices". Come back here and tell us what you learned new from this advice.

We will pick 5 winners at random from the responses.

The rules:

• Must have 25+ posts on the sites to win
• Staff may participate
• One post per member

Deadline:

• July 15th, 2007 @ Midnight CST

Chris Leckness, Administrator
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices

       

what i've learned: I need to actually back up my pda and put on a`dedicated storage card

"The greatest single cause of athetism in the world today is christians, who acknologe Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle, that is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable" dc talk

I learned that I've not backed up enough. And that I need some backup software to do this.

I learned I ought to automate the backup process more, but I do most of the other ones!

breley | Aximsite/Mobility Site Review Staff, Administrator | Judge, Smartphone & Pocket PC Best Software Awards 2008

          

I learned that you need to make sure you set up automatic backup, just in case if your data gets lost. You should use the self extracting exe, so you can run this without Sprite Backup installed. This is ideal for a hard reset. You need to make sure the program actually restores everything with no errors. Make sure you have at least 4 backups total. Make sure to keep some on your PC, or another memory device other than your PDA to make sure that you don't lose that backup file. If you make your backup file have a password, your files wont get in the wrong hands. If you do not have a lot of storage left over, make sure you add some memory management. If you can, make a storage card just for backups. To ensure nothing will be deleted. Make sure you know how to use every feature of Sprite Backup.

That is all...

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Taylor
Dell Axim X51v (Long WM6 User)
256MB CF Card (Not Used Much)
SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash 4GB - FAST!
1 GB SD Card
2 GB PNY SD Card
Bluetooth GPS
Love my X51v

 

I want a copy!!

I learned that it's a good idea to practice a restore before it's actually needed, and that it's a good idea to keep at least 4 backup.

Thx-
Rocco

  

I've learned not to trust my beloved Ax completely... back up , back up , back up!!!

I've learned that an automated backup will go a long way toward covering for my laziness when it comes to backups...

{Insert witty thought here}

Oh, and by the way I'm your average Total Geek... 28.79684% Geek

 

2. Use the Self-Extracting (Exe) Backup option for the files you keep on the Device/Storage Card. This simplifies the data restore operation and avoids the need to re-install the application.

Copying a backup to a separate storage card and keeping it in an alternative location --that is good advice.

 

backup backup backup... because you really never know what could happen.

Other than practices being spelled practises, best practices are the best way to minimiza data loss.

7. Dedicate a storage card for backup purposes and label it. Keep it separate from your device.

I like that, but it would be somehow contradicting to their words in the top page: "Once Sprite Backup is set up, it can continuously protect your device with no further intervention by you"

Perhaps they should automate too the process of removing the backup storage card and kept that separately....

 

yes, Ive learned that It saves your configuration settings, data, and applications and not just contacts and calenders. Also that It backs up automatically and that it backs up on PC so even if you loose your device (knock on wood) you can get a new one and back up the information

~The Ipaq User