Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
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backup module and 16 meg upgrade

Ok. I've bought the 16 meg base memory upgrade for Prism. I still have my 8 meg backup modules.

What happens when I backup and have 9 megs of data on the Prism and only 8 megs available on the backup module? Will it destroy the WHOLE backup or just leave some things out? Is there any way to know WHAT gets left out??

I have some utilities like Launch'em if that could be used to control backing up to the module.

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Backup module makes an image of the ram(8 MB) by address. So I guess it'll back up first 8 MB. And if you try to restore from the module, it'll overwrite only first 8 MB.
Just an educated guess.
How does it feel to have 16 MB??

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It feels great---the impetus actually was VisorPhone. I was using the Hagiwara 16 meg flash module and had plenty of space left on my Visor proper. But then add all the phone apps (about 1.6 megs) and my free space dwindled alarmingly. With the phone in the module bay, I was also less willing to be using the Flash as often so needed more space. This solves the problem!

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Originally posted by Mark Squires
This solves the problem!

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Registered: Oct 1999
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That was the only reason I hesitated in getting the ram upgrade in the first place. But since I do have a 16 meg flash Hagiwara, I figure I can backup manually in a pinch (help from File Mover).

Also, I do sync regularly except when I travel. When I do travel, I will have to make sure that I have an 8 meg module backed up at home and that non critical apps are moved to the Hagiwara. Complicated and annoying, but won't happen often.

It would be nice if Handspring just made a 16 meg Visor, wouldn't it with appropriate modules.

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Registered: Oct 1999
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Here's a wrinkle I wonder if anyone could help with:

--So I now have my memory upgrade. The first backup I did with the 8 meg Handspring module, I made sure that I moved some data off of the Visor so I could get a full backup. In fact, I had only 6 megs on the Visor. The backup module--so I presume--then "sees" the whole 16 megs available and says "Won't be able to backup everything; do a partial?"

I say yes. After all, there are only 6 megs of DATA.

I presume that the data has been backed up and it didn't waste space backing up empty unusued Visor memory. What do you thinK?

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