Today's Lesson - back ups

[mfreedmn_97]

Today's lesson ? BACK UP EARLY. BACK UP OFTEN. Last night , out of the blue, my 32GB PB dropped out of warp speed and had a full on o/s crash complete with the dreaded flashing red led symptom. Full re-install. LUCKILY I had a fairly recent back up from Dec. 22nd which saved me HOURS of rebuilding time. Lesson learned for me. How about you ?

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box.net .

[diegonei]

Box is good for files. Helps nothing with savegames, app config and settings.

I do backups whenever I have a chance. My laptop is toast so I need to rely om friends. I used to do them every weekend.

[cntrydncr223]

Originally Posted by mfreedmn_97

Today's lesson ? BACK UP EARLY. BACK UP OFTEN. Last night , out of the blue, my 32GB PB dropped out of warp speed and had a full on o/s crash complete with the dreaded flashing red led symptom. Full re-install. LUCKILY I had a fairly recent back up from Dec. 22nd which saved me HOURS of rebuilding time. Lesson learned for me. How about you ?

Very sorry to hear that and thanks for the reminder (backing up now...)
how is the unit?

[anthogag]

I learned the painful lesson of backing-up often...after my first hard drive crash

[Chrysalis1156]

Yeah, learned that lesson years ago. Spending a few minutes backing up can save you several wasted hours...too bad my Playbook doesn't always play nice in the back up department...

[F2]

Originally Posted by diegonei

Box is good for files. Helps nothing with savegames, app config and settings.

I do backups whenever I have a chance. My laptop is toast so I need to rely om friends. I used to do them every weekend.

That's very, ahem, nice to know!

[Belfoursdayz]

How do i back up my playbook?

[Chrysalis1156]

You'll need the Blackberry Desktop Software installed on your computer and the usb cable that came with your Playbook. Just open the Desktop Software & plug in your Playbook (which should be turned on). Once your computer recognizes your Playbook the Back up button should be available in Desktop Software. Choose a location, click "Back up" and you should be good to go.

[Belfoursdayz]

Thanks a lot. I'm going to get on this right away.

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[ultra07]

Good Luck getting your appdata to backup! Most of us have had a problem getting it to backup!

[alnamvet68]

Originally Posted by diegonei

Box is good for files. Helps nothing with savegames, app config and settings.

I do backups whenever I have a chance. My laptop is toast so I need to rely om friends. I used to do them every weekend.

Originally Posted by F2

That's very, ahem, nice to know!

Some celebrate Carnival every weekend.

[lawmom4]

Backing up now!

[Alt-F4]

Ive been able to backup my 16gig once out of prob 8 tries.. it hasent been able to backup my app data since.. now on my 32 gig I have yet to be able to backup anything accept settings and media lol.. only stuff i care about is the app data :/ kind of a bummer.. and unless thers been recent fixes i have tried just abut every suggestion on forums lol
Also i did try the first 2.0 beta for a couple hours when it was newish and my pb randomly crashed.. did a hard reset and no joke it restarted back on 1.7 with only the stock apps lol... just a fyi.. havent heard of it happening to anyone else but reason enough to want a successfull app data backup imo

[Chrysalis1156]

I could get Media & Settings to back up under a custom setting but couldn't get AppData to back up. At the suggestion of another member I just kept pushing Back Up after each failed try. On the 7th attempt it finally backed up. Don't know why & am not suggesting it would work for anyone else or that anyone would want to spend that much time on it. We should be able to back up our AppData without a hassle. RIM needs to address this issue and soon.