PCC Backup and Restore - a better way?

[blackbox]

I ended up having to do a reinstall with SUS last night and backed everything up with PCC.

I didn't realise I'd lose all my downloaded apps when restoring from a backup created by PCC. Is there a better way to back up that keeps everything intact?

It didn't restore all of my media either - there are some photos missing. Took an age to restore as well (about an hour) and kept hanging (I'm on Windows 7) - I don't even have that much stuff on the internal storage, it's less than half full. Is this normal?

[blackbox]

This works brilliantly. Just what I wanted.

If you're up for it, download the SDK and give it a go. It's a bit of an ask for your typical end user, but it's really not that hard. As a bonus you'll be set up to try your hand at app development.

Get the SDK here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

This tells you all you need to know regards usage:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351

[_alexdon_]

I am not that interesed in app development,but maybe I will have a look.

[blackbox]

adb does a ton of other things, but the backup/restore are worth the price of admission.

I can create a couple of .bat files to kick off the backup and restore processes with a single click. Job done. No more PCC hanging, caning my processor for an hour at at time and not actually backing everything up.