Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Pocket PC backup solutions
Posted by marlof in "ARTICLE" @ 02:10 PM
http://www.davespda.com/features/backup.htm
Dave's PDA features a good article dealing with different ways of doing a Pocket PC backup. He discusses Activesync Backup, Art Soft's ArtSSave, Sunnysoft Backup Manager, CF Backup / Restore (as provided with some Pocket PCs) and Sprite Software's Pocket Backup.
Of course you'd want to read to complete review for his comments, and speed test, but his conclusion is: "After taking a look at all these solutions, I found that anyone needing to do backup should probably spend the money and buy a solution. All the solutions except ActiveSync and CF Backup/Restore have to be purchased, but for the money you get a product that is 10 to 20 times faster then the free solutions. In the end, the solution I would likely choose would be Sprite's Pocket Backup, though I would also consider Art Soft's ArtSSave. Sprite Pocket Backup is an incredibly easy to use solution. When my device is full, I would like to have the compression option just to keep the backup size as small as possible. The only thing I would worry about with Pocket Backup is that an uncompressed file would be much larger then needed but there would be no real reason to run Pocket Backup uncompressed when it only takes a little longer to run compressed. My other choice, ArtSSave, comes instead of Backup Manager because Backup Manager was difficult to use. Though it doesn't have as many screens as ArtSSave, it doesn't automatically allow you to backup to a storage card, but instead you have to setup association yourself. Though it isn't really that hard to actually do this, it isn't as simply to figure out how to do this in Backup Manager. ArtSSave's primary feature I most like it the automatic backups when your device hits the low battery warning or to have a backup created at a certain time each day."
I have to admit that before I bought Pocket Backup a while back, I only performed a backup once a month or so. I've severely cut my fingers because of this, and that's when I bought Pocket Backup. Since then, I perform schedules backups and as my Pocket PC has a better mind than me, I ended up with recent backups with my latest beta testing invoked crash.
Question: do you backup your Pocket PC, and if so, what solution do you use?
Dave's PDA features a good article dealing with different ways of doing a Pocket PC backup. He discusses Activesync Backup, Art Soft's ArtSSave, Sunnysoft Backup Manager, CF Backup / Restore (as provided with some Pocket PCs) and Sprite Software's Pocket Backup.
Of course you'd want to read to complete review for his comments, and speed test, but his conclusion is: "After taking a look at all these solutions, I found that anyone needing to do backup should probably spend the money and buy a solution. All the solutions except ActiveSync and CF Backup/Restore have to be purchased, but for the money you get a product that is 10 to 20 times faster then the free solutions. In the end, the solution I would likely choose would be Sprite's Pocket Backup, though I would also consider Art Soft's ArtSSave. Sprite Pocket Backup is an incredibly easy to use solution. When my device is full, I would like to have the compression option just to keep the backup size as small as possible. The only thing I would worry about with Pocket Backup is that an uncompressed file would be much larger then needed but there would be no real reason to run Pocket Backup uncompressed when it only takes a little longer to run compressed. My other choice, ArtSSave, comes instead of Backup Manager because Backup Manager was difficult to use. Though it doesn't have as many screens as ArtSSave, it doesn't automatically allow you to backup to a storage card, but instead you have to setup association yourself. Though it isn't really that hard to actually do this, it isn't as simply to figure out how to do this in Backup Manager. ArtSSave's primary feature I most like it the automatic backups when your device hits the low battery warning or to have a backup created at a certain time each day."
I have to admit that before I bought Pocket Backup a while back, I only performed a backup once a month or so. I've severely cut my fingers because of this, and that's when I bought Pocket Backup. Since then, I perform schedules backups and as my Pocket PC has a better mind than me, I ended up with recent backups with my latest beta testing invoked crash.
Question: do you backup your Pocket PC, and if so, what solution do you use?
