Earlier this morning I had despaired; my Palm Pilot had fallen and couldn't get up. It had crashed. Hard. I had to force a Hard Reset to even get it back to the factory default condition.
I'd lost my ebooks, schedule, contacts, everything. Sure, it was backed up on my computer, in a backup folder, but a manual restore requries an hour or two of reinstalling.
I was bummed, until I remembered that in one of my 'smart' moments, I 'd installed a free 'fire and forget' backup utility to my SD Card: NVBackup.
This little sucker fired up, restored, and bam, I'm back in business. Everything was where it was supposed to be. A complete restore.
In five minutes.
Recommendation: if you do nothing else for your Palm Pilot today, read this review, then download and install NVBackup.
Then forget about it, until you need it.
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Wow, you are lucky you did that. Backing stuff up is such a pain. But these days I store so much important data. You just have to keep more than one copy of everything.
Sid Softwares last blog post..Best Windows backup software
@Sid Software — Yep, that one did teach me the value of automated backups. Just forget about them until you need them. When this blog crashed I was happy that I’d set up an automated backup for it too.