EVERYONE who does a FULL BACKUP READ THIS (how to speed it up)

[falgun]

Ok I am not sure if this is floating around or not but try this everyone at least those who apply. As you all know a full backup from PPC to computer takes a Sh*t long time around half hour or more. At least for me it took around 40 minutes. Ok for those who have a wireless connection and use activesync that way try this. First from your axim with your wireless card on do a sync. once done go to your desktop and follow the normal procedure to do a full backup. make sure your axim is not in the cradle. and just click BACK UP NOW. through the wireless connection it TOOK LIKE 3 MINUTES. I DID FULL BACKUP AND EVERYTHING LIKE USUALLY. EVERYONE try it and LET ME KNOW if it worked for you. hopefully this made sense

[falgun]

I have not tried a restore of the backup file i did through the wireless connection but i am to weary to try so if anyone does a check of there backup who does it wirelessy please post here and let me and rest know if it is just as flawless and faster then going through cradle

[falgun]

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[falgun]

no one try???

[Fritz]

I'm gonna just cut n paste about some other tips for doing backups from this thread

Some tips for backups:

Full backup is always the safest (ie: incremental backup may corrupt ur previous backup file); but if you want to avoid the sluggishness of a fullbackup but want the robustness, perform an incremental like Raynne has mentioned -- but keep a copy of the old backup and then increment on another copy for safety sake.

Also, if you have a NIC or WiFi setup use that instead of the USB cradle to perform the backup/restore, its blazingly fast.

Yeah, the WiFi backup/restore is da bomb!

cheers.

[nomar05]

It took me 14 minutes to create a full backup (21,301 KB) via the wi-fi route.

[NMkiD]

I'm not even sure how to sync with wifi, I hae a wifi connection and I can sync with my laptop via IR but how do you backup with wifi?

[Iceman]

It took exactly 3 minutes to do the backup wirelessly. The backup file is 14,789KB. I was connected at 11M so it's a little faster than the slow USB1.1 connection!

[Fritz]

Originally posted by NMkiD
I'm not even sure how to sync with wifi, I hae a wifi connection and I can sync with my laptop via IR but how do you backup with wifi?

If you got your wifi to setup for internet and stuff for your Ax and then have a proper partnership with ur desktop; just fireup your AS in your X5, and click 'synch' -- it should then automatically sync with your desktop, from there you can backup and restore.

Cheers.

[falgun]

my bacuk file size is around 10 megs and as i said this was wayyyyyy faster trust me EVERYONE SHOULD GIVE IT A TRY. NMKID there is a tutorial floating around that tells you step by step how to do a sync wirelessly, i think i may of saw it at the other axim site the axim user .com ? i forget but trust me its very easy to setup took about 2 minutes to get it setup i wish i could remeber how i did it let alone the site i will search and post it here.

[Iceman]

Does anyone know if the Axim cradle/sync cable uses USB full speed (12 Mbps) or low speed (1.5 Mbps)?

http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1

[falgun]

it uses low speed unfortunatly

[Iceman]

So that's why the wireless backup went so quickly (1.5Mb/s compared too 11Mb/s). This is a great tip falgun, thanks. :D

[falgun]

yeah that is what i am figuring even when i was further away from my router my speeds for backing up was WAY FASTER, if any ADMIN is around i suggest you all test this out and put it in the tutorials so others can try it out and BENEFIT from this!!!

[falgun]

Hey NMKID here is a link that i was talking about it shows you how to do active sync via wireless, and then once you got it setup try the backup u will love the speeds :)


http://www.thedigitalfoundry.com/x5howto/