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Published: April 25, 2008 @ 7:37 am —
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Backing up your data provides tremendous peace of mind, and the folks at RIM made backing up your information quite easy. You can back up your data manually or set it to autopilot.

Backing up your BlackBerry manually

Follow these steps to back up your BlackBerry manually:

The Backup and Restore screen appears.

A Save window appears, asking you what the backup file should be named and where you want it saved on your PC (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: Indicate where you want to save your backup file.

BlackBerry Desktop Manager automatically starts backing up your BlackBerry information to your PC. You can follow the backup progress from the Transfer In Progress window that appears. See Figure 2.

Figure 2: A backup in progress
Figure 2: A backup in progress

Do not unplug your BlackBerry from the PC until the backup process finishes! Depending on how much information you have on your BlackBerry, it might take more than a moment (five to ten minutes) to finish.

When the Transfer In Progress window disappears, you are finished with the BlackBerry backup process.

Setting up auto backups

What is better than backing up your information once? Remembering to back up regularly! What’s better than regularly backing up? You guessed it - having your PC and BlackBerry run backups automatically. After you schedule automated backups of your BlackBerry, you can really have peace of mind when it comes to preventing information loss.

To set up an auto backup, follow these steps:

The Backup and Restore screen opens.

Doing so opens the Backup and Restore Options screen, where you can schedule automatic backups (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Set auto backups here.
Figure 3: Set auto backups here.

This enables you to configure more options (check boxes and options become active), like how often Desktop Manager should back up your BlackBerry.

This interval sets how often your BlackBerry will be backed up. For example, if you enter 14 days, your BlackBerry will be backed up every 14 days.

This backs up all the data on your handheld each time auto backup runs.

Although you have the option to exclude email messages and/or information, such as from Address Book, to-dos, and memos, you should back up everything each time without exclusion.

Now you can go on with your life without caring about backing up information on your BlackBerry.

To run a backup, you need to connect your BlackBerry to your PC. Thus, if you travel often or just don’t link your BlackBerry to your PC often, make sure that you plug your BlackBerry into your PC once in a while so that the auto backup has a chance to back up your information.




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