Palm BAckup Card

[mariog98]

To all:

Any one working with Agendus and backing up your Palm product with The Palm BACKUP CARD? How does it work? Any problems?

How many times can you backup the unit with ONE CARD? More than once as long as there is enough memory?

Have you tried to recover form the card? Any precautions?

How big is the card - in Bytes?

Can you delete a backupset and keep others on the card to make for room?

Are there any competing products that exist? Recommended?

Thanks for any comments?

Mariog98

[palm boy]

Don't buy the palm backup card. insteaed, buy a normal SD expansion card and instal Card Backup from www.jkware.com

[mmencke]

Are there any competing products that exist? Recommended? gotta aggree with palm boy on this the palm card only holds 8 meg and it will overwrite itself everytime you run a backup and i don't think you can put other apps on it

[ebisix]

Yes. It is better to get a normal Secure Digital expansion card because you can backup your data and still hold some applications.

[palm boy]

Okay, Before you read this, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME. (or at work).
I did a backup using cardback-up, Then did a hard reset. After I went through the set up, I went to the card and did a restore. IT WORKS!

[lexjuris]

I agree with all of them.

You better buy the normal SD card. In my case, I use a 128MB panasonic SD card. I downloaded the latest BACKUPMAN, from www.bitsnbolts.com and I'm up and running knowing that even if I'm on the road and encountered a system crash or fatal exception of some sort (because I used to program in PocketC on my handheld, so system crash is not uncommon, especially if your dubbuging), BackupMan will restore all the PDB's and other files residing on my RAM.

In BackupMan, you can have several backups of your RAM files and you can restore them anytime. You can delete some of them and retain the others.

The limit of your backup set will depend on your SD card capacity. In my case, my 128mb SD card can handle 81 backup set of the my 1.5MB data residing on my RAM.


N.B.

Please note however that I'm not in anyway endorsing BAckupMan, nor am I a member of the company's development team. It just so happened that it's the one I'm using. You better checked other backup utility on this site or at PALMGEAR.COM. Other backup utilities are: BackupbuddyVFS(Free), Cardbackup, AdvanceBackup, etc.

In terms of restoration, I have no problem with BACKUPMAN --all files are restored.

[mariog98]

Thanks for all the great feedback.

What is a good source to buy the Expansion cards? Any differences I should watch out for. I will check Office Depot and Office Max to see what they have....

... Mariog98

[mmencke]

Any differences I should watch out for. you can use SD or MMC cards the diferance is that SD cards can be locked (like the copy protection on a floppy) an MMC can not

[palm boy]

And the SD card have ESD Protection. Cheak out coumusa. Just stay away from the san Disk.

[mmencke]

Just stay away from the san Disk. I have seen this said other places but I have never had a problem with the 64m sandisk card I have in my m125, or any memory I have ever used from them

[palm boy]

I have a 64mb card also. I said that because of the stories I have heard.