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DrQ · 09-25-2007, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by iamjames

So I just keep half the card empty forever so the other half can be a backup?

That said sprite backup full works great. It's much slower than I would have liked, took 5 minutes to restore 34 megabytes to the card so restoring a few gigabytes would take overnight but it's better than nothing.

Why are you considering actively backing up non-changing data? Most of my 4gb is music or movies. My complete backup of system, emails, changing docs, and 40 installed apps is only 34mb and yes it takes 5 minutes to back-up once a week. Even daily wouldn't be bad at that rate.

DrQ · 09-25-2007, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by iamjames

huh... good to know, i'll give that a try because it's sloooooow to restore to the card. 80 megabytes in 14 minutes.

good, I'm sure most of that data is on your PC anyways.

cheri · 09-25-2007, 09:34 PM

ive never been a good backer upper accept at work.

Not because im that lazy. i just never really knew the proper way to back up my Q or PC.

Sounds lame lol but its true

DrQ · 09-25-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cheri

ive never been a good backer upper accept at work.

Not because im that lazy. i just never really knew the proper way to back up my Q or PC.

Sounds lame lol but its true

Sprite makes it easy....you can just schedule it to automatically do it on a regular interval.

On my PC I just make sure I have my pics, docs and music on a portable hard drive or another PC.

The likelyhood of the Q needing to be reset up is a lot higher than one of my computers and the Q has so much uniquely set up like email accounts, hacks, home screens, program registration number; I would rather not do that for a MOL upgrade or Master Reset. As I said all my data resides in multiple places.

winotree · 09-25-2007, 09:44 PM

@ DrQ This is a question with which I have been concerned because of having no PC to backup my Q. What you are saying is that:

1. Sprite Lite is Q resident and can backup to my SC.

2. A hard reset does not affect the SC...so I could have all my third-party apps on one SC, say 1GB and backup the hard device of the Q to a second SC, a 156KB (or similar size) is that correct?

This way, I think (and here I would greatly appreciate your feedback) my information and my device would both be protected. If not, how should I proceed? A hard reset three or four months ago was hard...but one today would be awful! Thanking you in advance,

rudeboy · 09-25-2007, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by iamjames

what? How do you backup a 4 gigabyte mini sd to the 64 meg Q?

you don't... i said backup the Q and copy that backup to the pc, and why would you backup the storage card when you can just copy the contents (zipped or not) those to your pc ?

rudeboy · 09-25-2007, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by winotree

*SNIP* 2. A hard reset does not affect the SC...so I could have all my third-party apps on one SC, say 1GB and backup the hard device of the Q to a second SC, a 156KB (or similar size) is that correct?

it is called a Master Reset and no it does NOT effect the storage card, however if you have applications installed on the storage card they will NOT be included/"linked" in the new fresh registry..

DrQ · 09-25-2007, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by winotree

@ DrQ This is a question with which I have been concerned because of having no PC to backup my Q. What you are saying is that:

1. Sprite Lite is Q resident and can backup to my SC.

2. A hard reset does not affect the SC...so I could have all my third-party apps on one SC, say 1GB and backup the hard device of the Q to a second SC, a 156KB (or similar size) is that correct?

This way, I think (and here I would greatly appreciate your feedback) my information and my device would both be protected. If not, how should I proceed? A hard reset three or four months ago was hard...but one today would be awful! Thanking you in advance,

Yes...Sprite Lite is PC independent and backing up to a separate card would additionally protect the backup but I don't think it necessary. Like I said mine for all my contacts, calender, program settings, etc is 34mb. I keep my CABS all on my Storage card in case I need or want to uninstall or reinstall quickly.

I did a master Reset a couple of months ago to do the Sprint MOL 3 upgrade and my storage card was not affected.

If anyone has ever had their card affected by a Master Reset, I hope they will post it and correct me, as I really don't want to be responsible for that kind of bad advice.

winotree · 09-25-2007, 10:08 PM

OK...thanks. Restatring the Q after a master reset--will the SD be recognized, or do you have to set up new links? I was going to start this thread (and get Sprite) so this information couldn't have come at a better time.

DrQ · 09-25-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rudeboy

it is called a Master Reset and no it does NOT effect the storage card, however if you have applications installed on the storage card they will NOT be included/"linked" in the new fresh registry..

Sprite does restore those registry links though, which is why I "likes" it

although there might have been one program that didn't work great and I had to reinstall. It might have been PDAnet

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