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Spb Software House has just announced the release Spb Backup 2.0 a well known tool for making reserve copies of personal data and system settings for Windows Mobile phones. Spb Backup 2.0 not only safeguards from data loss, eliminates the pain of reinstalling applications after a hard reset, a ROM or device upgrade, and delivers a flawless restore experience it now makes the whole process easier. The choice of ASUS and Gigabyte, Spb Backup became the best-sold backup utility for Pocket PC in 2007. The new Spb Backup 2.0 is smarter, twice as fast, and makes moving data between Windows Mobile phones as easy as unpacking an archive.

Spb Backup 2.0 will come to the rescue if a hard reset disaster strikes, or if the device is stolen or lost. Spb Backup Sync makes it easy to keep a recent copy of all data and system settings at a secure desktop PC location. Spb Backup 2.0 will restore from the archive, even if data has to be moved to a new device or ROM. The backing up process itself is so easy, that regular backups will become second nature. Spb Backup 2.0 works for both Pocket PCs and Smartphones and copies the entire device, including contacts, sms, emails, storage card files, and even preferences and shortcuts.

Originally, Spb Backup sprung up from Spb Clone technology — a product, trusted by thousands of enterprises for creating exact copies of "master" PDA devices. The new Spb Backup 2.0 offers a handy desktop component — Spb Backup Unpack. The tool allows viewing and exploring the backup archive on a desktop PC and pulling out single contacts, messages, and tasks. During the restore process, Spb Backup will automatically detect if device or ROM upgrade is taking place and prompt to select the appropriate restore mode.

Spb Backup 2.0

• Device and ROM upgrade modes — NEW!
• Spb Backup Sync — NEW!
• Spb Backup Unpack tool — NEW!
• Smartphone version — NEW!
• File Black-list or "Ignored Files" — NEW!
• Copies the entire device: settings, SMS, Emails, tasks, software, shortcuts, preferences
• Storage card backup
• Customizable file restoration
• Scheduled backups
• Self-extracting executable backup files
• Full and custom backups
• Backup file compression and encryption

Pricing and Availability

Spb Backup is compatible with Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0 for Pocket PC , Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 Professional and Standard devices, as well as Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista on desktop. VGA, Square QVGA, and QVGA screen resolutions are supported. A free, 5-run trial can be downloaded, or Spb Backup 2.0 may be purchased for 24.95 USD, or upgraded from older Spb Backup versions for just 9.95 USD, at www.spbsoftwarehouse.com. According to Spb Software House upgrades policy, all Spb Backup users, who have purchased the product within the last 90 days, are invited to exchange the previous version of software for the newly released one, for free.

Further Information and Downloads

Further information regarding Spb backup can be found at the Spb website:
Spb Backup for Pocket PC web page
Spb Backup for Pocket PC screenshots page
Spb Backup for Pocket PC downloading page

Edit: Note that Spb Backup will also backup encrypted files. We received several emails concerning this issue and Spb responded as follows:

"So far there are no known unfixed issues with device encryption software. As for storage card encryption, Spb Backup handles it without problems.It will store the backup file in unencrypted mode so the backup can be read on any other device. To prevent the security flaw in this case the backup password protection is required."