Comments on the Market are saying the same thing. What are we missing here?

@Milind: As for the cost, I can’t say anything for sure, sorry. Chances are that it will be free, as it enables us to promote desktop version of Handy Backup… but not before we restore its compatibility with desktop version (the way it worked in the very first beta). I’ll give more details as I get them.

@pdragon and JoeV: We have SFTP in desktop Handy Backup, so I assume it won’t be a problem to add it to Android. I’ve e-mailed the question to our lead javist, and I’ll let you know as soon as I receive his reply.

@Dave: I agree on pre-calculating backup size, but I’m not sure how much resources it will eat away….. Moreover, I believe that we tested it, i.e. the code already exists, but it was for some reason removed. As for audio chime – what a great thought! I think the Dev Team will be able to include in the upcoming release.
Still don’t take this as an official announcement:D

Tomorrow I’ll try to convince our php coder to create a poll on the website, so the developers will be able to adjust priorities in accordance with how people vote.

-Alex

Have it pre-calculate if you can backup your SD card to your SD Card. I don’t think mine (in process right now) is going to work, since I had it pretty full.

Audio chime on complete. It seems to take a long time, so a chime would be good as my screen went/goes dark. It does keep working while the screen is off right?

Sans FTP option, another option to move data – wifi, bluetooth, 3G/Edge, usb cable. Also email compressed files to Gmail?

Progress bar took a full 4 minutes to show up, it is a very slow application. I am an ASTRO user and their app backup is very fast. I understand .apk file vs. all my photos and videos but 4 min is a long time to wait for the progress bar to show up, I thought the app might be broken. After the initial visual, it sat at about 5% complete for a long time for well over 5 min. Hard to tell if anything was going on.

Good to see email still was coming in to the device while this was happening.

Will this app play nice with the desktop app for those of us who are customers already?

I hope my colleagues won’t object to me sharing some information:D The first two features that we’re planning to add is, as it’s been said, support for backing up to FTP, and then, image-based backup. I’m not yet sure how the latter will work (since I work on some different project), but that’s what I heard on today’s meeting of our development team. I guess it will create a snapshot of SD card contents with all data and boot records.. probably something else? I hope this gives you some ideas of what to expect.

By the way, I just thought that we could make a sort of a poll on the Handy Backup website, so people can vote for what we should develop next? Can somebody share his thoughts on what you’d actually love to see in Handy Backup for Android next?

-Alex, Novosoft

This has a long way to come, but if their desktop architecture is as important as they make it seem, then this will easily outpace the backup tools available to android currently imo.