Comments on: Review: Sprite Backup 5.2 for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/ A Practical Look At Mobile Life Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:36:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Brandon (aka Netsyd) http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6030 Brandon (aka Netsyd) Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:16:39 +0000 http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6030 I think that ultimately Sprite was the faster of the two ... but then Spb doesn't have a backup solution yet for Smartphone. I wish they did because I would have loved to compare the two of them. And you're absolutely right - always test your backups. Not necessarily every single one, but if you make any modifications to your settings, test the very next backup simply to ensure that you aren't putting faith in something that unknown to you may not be working. Always test your recovery plan. Rule number 1!! I think that ultimately Sprite was the faster of the two … but then Spb doesn’t have a backup solution yet for Smartphone. I wish they did because I would have loved to compare the two of them.

And you’re absolutely right - always test your backups. Not necessarily every single one, but if you make any modifications to your settings, test the very next backup simply to ensure that you aren’t putting faith in something that unknown to you may not be working.

Always test your recovery plan. Rule number 1!!

]]> By: tjchan http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6027 tjchan Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:51:24 +0000 http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6027 Using 1 version prior to this one, I did not like Sprite backup and I decided on using SPB Backup. One of my problems with Sprite (which sounds like they finally fixed) was me telling them not to encrypt my backup and it somehow ended up with a default password of some sort (this kept happening). First time I had to restore my system and my backup didn't work. Learned from this incident that ANY BACKUPs you make, make sure that you can test them out and make sure they will restore - else you will find yourself in a very very bad predicament. They unlike SPB Backup had a unique feature of "upgrade model" which helped moves data and application across OS upgrades. (Wonder how this will fare when Crossbow comes out.) - I personally never had to try this feature out. As a company, Sprite is very good, and the customer support staff are friendly. In a comparison with SPB Backup, one was faster with the backup but larger filesize (I can't remember which though as a slightly larger filesize didn't bother me or even a little more time). Using 1 version prior to this one, I did not like Sprite backup and I decided on using SPB Backup. One of my problems with Sprite (which sounds like they finally fixed) was me telling them not to encrypt my backup and it somehow ended up with a default password of some sort (this kept happening). First time I had to restore my system and my backup didn’t work.

Learned from this incident that ANY BACKUPs you make, make sure that you can test them out and make sure they will restore - else you will find yourself in a very very bad predicament.

They unlike SPB Backup had a unique feature of “upgrade model” which helped moves data and application across OS upgrades. (Wonder how this will fare when Crossbow comes out.) - I personally never had to try this feature out.

As a company, Sprite is very good, and the customer support staff are friendly.

In a comparison with SPB Backup, one was faster with the backup but larger filesize (I can’t remember which though as a slightly larger filesize didn’t bother me or even a little more time).

]]> By: dgoldring http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6024 dgoldring Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:50:36 +0000 http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2006/12/08/review-sprite-backup-52-for-windows-mobile-5-smartphone/#comment-6024 Good review, NetSyd. Funny, because I just started evaluating SPB Backup for Pocket PC for an upcoming review. I'll be interested to see how the two compare. Doug Good review, NetSyd. Funny, because I just started evaluating SPB Backup for Pocket PC for an upcoming review. I’ll be interested to see how the two compare.

Doug

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