Keep coming here hoping someone has found a simple fix or RIM has decided to actually invest effort into this 1 year old bug. But I keep forgetting that RIM has never (and will never) be known for fantastic support and has a habit of leaving many customers in the dark.
Sounds dumb but:
- Backup Media & Settings separately
- Disable WIFI on your PB (prevents the 100byte failed backup message from 2/3 to 1/3 times)
- Remove all apps you have no game save data for (in my case it means removing about 11GB of apps. Thanks rim)
- Try to backup whats left for apps (7GB in my case)
Note: You can secure wipe on the PB (dont do it on a Dev Alpha as it bricks the device, another good rim job) to resolve this issue temporarily
- Your backup will still fail a lot, keep removing apps. The application count will usually be wrong, indicating ther is still a problem
- Once you have a successful backup, make a second. I find up-to 2/3 backups will actually be corrupted when you try to apply them
Eventually you will have a backup, and it may actually be uncorrupted. Apparently this happens because applications do not fully install or remove themselves, and RIM has some hack job method of backing up your PlayBook apps, so if you install and remove apps on any kind of a regular basis - you'll eventually end up exactly where you are.
I'll come back to the forums in another 2 months to see if they resolved it. But considering having dealt with their completely useless support many times, and having looked for solutions for 12 months, I've just about given up on them. Just hope you never need to migrate PlayBooks like I seem to be stuck doing quite frequently.
Ed.
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