Trust but Verify

I can't very well put my trust in a computer that isn't backed up, can I?

BackupBuddyVFS Professional from Blue Nomad looks like it'll do. But there are a few preliminaries to take care of first.

Being the kind of procrastinator I am, I have a tendency to download and install time-limited demo versions of software to evaluate and then let the evaluation period lapse before I've done any evaluating. So before I install anything else on kushiel (that's what I've named my Centro) I will install the excellent Uninstall Manager from Northglide, which can help out in that sort of situation. And of course, I wouldn't dream of using it to continue using shareware without paying for it and neither would you.

Since I virtually always install software on a PalmOS device by using some kind of file manager, I think that I need to have Uninstall Manager's "Smart Monitoring" option turned on, but the documentation is slightly less than clear on that point.

Next up is the fabulous Explorer 2009 from Resco which is worth buying just for its handling of zip archives. They helpfully have a naked .prc file on their web site to install, but it is unhelpfully not working right now. However, that's not a problem thanks to this trick, which involves composing a message with the builtin email program, attaching a zip file to the message, saving it as a draft, and then viewing the draft, which will allow you to extract files from the zip archive attached to the draft.

Having installed those two packages, I installed BackupBuddyVFS and told it to back up on power off, to back up as zip files, and to verify the backups.

I hope it works. There are few things worse, I think, than thinking you're protected when you're not - and I don't just mean backup software.