NV Backup is a free, thorough and easy-to-use backup/restore solution for newer (NVFS) Palms: Treo/Centro Series, T5, TX, LifeDrive and TE2. It will not work on older (non-NVFS) devices (including Treo600).

NVBackup is free and may only be used AT YOUR OWN RISK WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL. It uses a different (undocumented) method for accessing data that theoretically should make it be more reliable than commercial backup programs on crash-prone newer PDAs (e.g., ones unstable because of incompatible third party software or buggy operating system).

Key Features:

• Daily (or nightly) scheduling of backups.
• Backs data up directly from the internal non-volatile memory. This should prevent crashes that may happen with other backup programs.
• Does not require a hard or warm reset before restoring data.
• Precise restore of saved state.
• Compresses and checksums backup data.
• Fast update mode that replaces backed up files changed since last backup.
• Selective restore function to restore one or more specific databases from a backup set.
• Encryption (128-bit AES).
• FTP server support: copy your backups wirelessly to your desktop (even automatically after each backup), and fetch them from there (wireless network access required).
• Atomic clock support: set your device time/date from atomic clocks on the net, either manually or after every scheduled backup (wireless Internet access required).
• Full source code available under BSD license (i.e., unlimited commercial use permitted, though I would appreciate being told about what use you make of it).

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Version history:

1.22 b9 (31 July 2008)

• Possible fix for clickthrough issue

1.22 b8 (17 July 2008)

• Fix for restoring from locked SD card
• Fix for scheduled backup dialog

1.22 b6 (21 June 2008)

• fix bug when updating time

1.22 b5 (11 June 2008)

• fix comment edit bug
• fix reset on unselect
• imported code from AtomClock: replaced TIME by SNTP protocol for atomic clock sync, and updated list of time servers

1.22 b4 (1 June 2008)

• New feature: you can select an alphabetic range when doing a selective restore

1.21: No info available

1.18: Use official Palm function for turning off display.

1.17: One-handed navigation in main form. Possible more reliable restore.

1.16: Help prevent freeze after backup.

1.15: Fix potential crash problem!

1.14: Alert after a bad scheduled (or crashed manual) backup.

1.13: Fixes minor interface issues (warn if no card inserted, better selective restore, fix refresh on return from details form).

1.12: should be able to do a scheduled back up of locked device without the need for NVBackup to store your system password; added security and OS upgrade warnings--see readme.txt

1.11: ftp bug fixes

1.10: encryption; ftp server support for saving backups; time server support for setting time from atomic clocks; ability to automatically enter password to do scheduled backups on locked device (this may be a security hole)

1.05: "trust dates" option for faster updates; fix a restore bug; fix a crash bug

1.04: Fix max cycle length bug. Add option not to copy self to card.

1.03: Try to fix a crash bug on exit.