Chapter 19. Protecting Your Information

In This Chapter

  • Performing a full backup of your BlackBerry information

  • Scheduling automatic backups

  • Restoring from backups

  • Selectively backing up information

Imagine that you left your BlackBerry in the back of a cab or on the train. You've lost your BlackBerry for good. Okay, not good. So what happens to all your information? Have you lost it forever? What about information security? Can anyone have unauthorized access to your personal information?

One thing that you don't need to worry about is information security — assuming that you set up a security password on your BlackBerry. With security password protection, anyone who finds your BlackBerry has only ten chances to enter the correct password; after those ten chances are up, it's self‐destruction time. Although it's not as smoky and dramatic as what you see on Mission Impossible, your BlackBerry does erase all of its information in such a scenario, thwarting your would‐be data thief. Therefore, set up a password for your BlackBerry! For information on how to do so, refer to Chapter 3.

What you do need to worry about is how to get back all your information on your BlackBerry. If you're like us and you store important information on your BlackBerry, this chapter is for you. Vital information such as clients' and friends' contact information, notes from phone calls with clients — and, of course, those precious e‐mail messages — should not be taken lightly. Backing up this information is a reliable ...

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