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moggy · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 05, 2004 Posts: 60

i want to have a backup card in case my CF card goes does while i'm out and about.

what i'm thinking of is having everything put onto a backup SD card so it for some reason the CF card fails, i can stick in the SD card.

is it best to install again onto the blank SD card or could i do a copy & paste type of thing and copy everything from the CF card onto the SD card?

this would be more preferable as ukpostcode is installed and the speed camera stuff. if i could copy and paste everything, i wouldn't have to reinstal those items.

what does everyone think?

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

Simple copy and paste will do, but you will need to make sure that your copy utility sees the system and hidden files (like DLLs)

Also, this only helps against card failures. If your main memory is wiped then you're outta luck. So before you backup your card, make sure you backup your Pocket PC ONTO that card.
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moggy · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 05, 2004 Posts: 60

so if i use a 256mb SD card, it should hold the whole contents of the pc and what is on the CF card, is that correct?

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject:

kind of. You should not copy the Pocket PC contents, you should use a backup program to make a backup of non-ROM files and of the registry and databases.

This backup is between 5 and 15 MB - so you need to reserve that much space on the memory card.

If you own an iPAQ with enough iPAQ File Store space then you can also do the backup to that - the ideal solution.
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moggy · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 05, 2004 Posts: 60

i'm using an axim5

i've done a backup from the programs on the ppc and copied over all contents from the CF card to the SD card.

what program do you recommend for backing up everything else?

lbendlin · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

Sprite Backup is the undisputed leader in this area.
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