I'm wondering if anyone has any experience dealing with the "Automatic Database 
Backup and Restore" feature supported by PalmOS.  

You can read about it here: 
http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/palmos/PalmOSCompanion/FilesAndDatabases.html#1032439

Here is the description from that page, "Various versions of Palm OS can be 
configured by a licensee to back up the contents of the RAM storage heaps to 
some sort of non-volatile NAND flash."

I'm thinking that this could be useful for our application, but I am having 
trouble figuring out what Palm devices it is supported by.  Does any Palm OS 
device that has a flash card slot support this feature, or is it only enabled 
in a select few devices?

I've been running the FtrGet() function that checks to see if a feature is 
supported, but every Palm I've run the function on tells me that the feature is 
not supported, including a Tungsten V, and Treo 650.

I'm using this function call to find out of a given device supports it:

FtrGet(sysFtrCreator, sysFtrNumDmAutoBackup, (UInt32*)&prefs)


If anyone has further insight into doing programmatic backups to a flash card, 
I'm all ears :)


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