Here are a few things I learned today regarding backing up your Pocket PC which you may find useful:

ActiveSync Backup Utility

In the Desktop PC screen of ActiveSync 3.7.1, if you click on the Menu Bar > Tools, you will see a Backup/Restore utility. This utility will backup everything stored in your PPC's RAM, including your \Windows folders, and copy it to your PC harddrive, all in a single backup file. There is also a Restore Utility, which lets you restore from this backup file, if you should ever happen to require a Hard Reset.


USB 2.0 High Speed 8 in 1 Card Reader/Writer

If you purchase one of those cheap USB 2.0 High Speed 8 in 1 card reader/writers you can copy an entire 256 mb SD Storage card in under a minute to your Desktop hard-drive. So these card reader/writers will give you a very high-speed method of saving your SD card data. It can also be useful if you purchase a new larger SD card. You can use it for transfering data from your old SD card to your PC then to your new SD card. You can also use it to quickly load up your SD card with MP3's, eBooks, Photo files, or large PDA game files (such as a 30mb Doom WAD file), without requiring the slower USB 1.1 speed of ActiveSync.

I recently purchased my USB 2.0 8-1 Reader/Writer on sale for under $10. Most computer stores sell them. It is about the size of a mans wallet, and has the ability to accept SD, MMC, Compact Flash, Memory Stick and other types of storage cards.

Make certain it is a USB 2.0, otherwise it will be MUCH slower !!!

These things are a lot more useful than I realized !!!

And here's something I've found to be the best way to backup your Windows Mobile based pocket PC . . .

Best Regards,

Wooch

Also, don't forget the backup utlity on the Axim itself. Start, Programs, Data Backup.

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I tried the ActiveSync backup utility, and it was very, very slow.

It took around 45 minutes to backup my PPC internal memory data to my PC.

So I tried a different approach.

I created 4 folders on my SD card:

\Windows
\Program Files
\Root
\Registery

I then used GSFinder+ and just copy/pasted the contents of my main memory \Windows folder to my SD card \Windows folder, using a Select All command.

I did the same with \Program Files, and also with the few files in my root directory \My Mobile Device.

I then used freeware program PHM RegEdit to create a backup of the Registery.

Then I did a Hard Reset, and did the reverse of the above, and just copied files back from the SD card, back to their respective folders, and used RegEdit to restore my Registery from my backup.

When I ran ActiveSync, my \My Documents folder, and my Pocket Outlook data was restored back to Calendar, Contacts, etc.

Everything worked fine after I restored the data.

I also copied all of my above backup folders to my Desktop PC in case my SD card is damaged or lost.

So Sprite Backup is probably the best way to backup (as many people have mentioned).

The included Data Backup utility Gigi mentioned above, is probably the next best approach.

And my above process will work, as well.