Chapter 17: Protecting Your Information - Blackberry dummies 2 Manual

Protecting Your Information
In This Chapter
Getting into backup and restore
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Performing a full backup of your BlackBerry Storm data
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Restoring from backups
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Backing up, restoring, and clearing in your own way
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Backing up and restoring your Storm wirelessly
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magine that you left your beautiful BlackBerry Storm in the back of a
cab. You've lost your Storm for good. Okay, not good. What happens to
all your information? How are you going to replace all those contacts? What
about security?
One thing that you don't need to worry about is information security — if you
set up a security password on your BlackBerry. With security password pro-
tection on your Storm, anyone who finds it has only ten chances to enter the
correct password; after those ten chances are up, it's self-destruction time.
Although it isn't as smoky as Mission Impossible, your BlackBerry Storm does
erase all its information, thwarting your would-be data thief.
Set up a password for your Storm now! For information on how to do so, see
Chapter 3.
Now, how to get back all the information that was on your BlackBerry Storm?
If you're like us and store important information on your BlackBerry, this
chapter is for you. Vital information, such as clients' and friends' contact
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