Backing up the Droid? Is rooting necessary and possible?

[bravo4]

One of the things nice about the iPhone is that you can have a complete backup. Say you lose the phone and buy another, you can completely restore right back to where you were, quite easily and swiftly. Is there a way to do this with the Droid?

I was reading HERE about rooting. Can you do this an load a different ROM? Or is there an easier solution?

Thanks!

[morgan]

You cannot toot the Droid as far as I know yet. Each hardware will pose a different challenge for rooting from what I understand. Witht this phone so new I imagine it will be awhile longer before its rooted.

[bravo4]

So how does one reliably backup everything? Why is this phone such a PITA? Sigh....

[morgan]

Well contacts and calendars are always synced so you never have to worry about that. I believe there are back up apps in the market

[russell5]

Not sure about apps because i just got the phone myself but under settings then privacy settings. theres an option to backup my settings.