to recover backup data without having a phone is real easy.

[marckranat]

export backup with sony backup/restore software to ecs format.
change name from p800-1.ecs so extention is .zip
then open in winzip.

[Muzikfreakah]

Then how do you put it back?

[Lantana]

I had to do a restore of a backup after having the firmware upgraded and it RAN OUT OF ROOM! Presumably the phone was pretty full when I did the backup and the new R2F software is bigger than the R2D.

Anyway, you can set WinXP to always open .ecs files with winzip. Trouble is, I deleted a whole bunch of unnessesary files (Opera cache files) to free up space (using winzip) and then Backup/Restore couldn't open the backup file - must have broken a parity check or something. Pity, would be very useful if you could.

[hAnDyGUY]

but still all unzipped files are .dat and not the original files! so as Muzikfreakah asked ... Then how do you put it back?