yes AS is so slow. i did it only once then discovered the hp backup
thats again not so fast backing up but certainly faster than using AS and the restore is a breeze
(easy and fast
).
as for the other hpc's... well sigmarion and intermec has a backup app, 900c and bsquare phh too but they have the bsquare backup which is slow
so i'm interested in sprite myself
even though i solved the problem on the bsquare by using a little app that backs up and restores only the databases. that's enough for me, and finally i can do it daily
as for the problems with sprite, can you try another version of sprite? also the WM5 beta is interesting too.