Backup/Restore

[Vette XP]

I got my 128 MB SD card on Thursday, and one of the first things I tried with it was running the DataBackup utility to backup my e310 to it.

Low and behold, on Friday I had the e310 lock up bad enough that a soft reset wouldn't bring it back; I had to go for the hard reset.

After the hard reset, I crossed my fingers and tried to run a Restore from my SD card. On my restore, it hung for quite a while at 82%; in fact, the first time, I thought it hung for good so I reset it. The second time, I let it run for as long as it needed, and after 10 minutes, all was restored.

The only weird thing was, I had to delete the partnership data on my desktop and re-establish a new partnership. I'm not sure if this is normal or not?

If the restore had failed, I wouldn't have lost any data, but it did save me time from loading all my extra applications again.

[imported_thadrool]

Interesting experience. Thanks for the comments. I'm fairly satisfied with the backup program too. Unlike the HP one, you don't have to have a preset amount of space on the card. I hated on the Jornada how it would require 20 MB and then end up only really using 5 MB to backup my RAM. WTF!

About the partnership, does a restore rename the device to what it previously was? Perhaps that's why you had to do all that junk over again.

[Vette XP]

Yes, the restore appears to have brought back the same device name. But, when I connected it to my desktop, it asked whether I wanted to create a new partnership, or connect as guest. And, when I chose to create a partnership, it complained that I already had one defined.

[imported_Jet8810]

the partnership thing is normal. Happened with my Ipaq too.