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i don't think these files are backed up.
many users who had problems after doing mods restored their backups and i think they only had the default icons afterwards.

Yea thats what I thought. I made a backup file the other day and it was 20mb, why is it such a big file if it doesnt save the actual apps? When I made a backup a month ago, it was only 4mb

my backups also were at about 4 MB. now it is 32 MB. ^^
as my pidgin logs (stored as html) are about 20 MB i would think a big part of these 32 MB are the conversations i made the last few weeks.
but it's looking quite too much for only some sms i wrote. *G*

edit: looked at it with my ubuntu laptop:
applications.zip -> 1,2 KB
bookmarks.zip -> 203 KB
comm_and_cal.zip -> 660,5 KB
settings.zip -> 6,9 MB
backup.metadata -> 682 Bytes

unzipped:
applications -> ~260 KB
(/var/lib/hildon-application-manager/ -> catalogues.backup and packages.backup)
bookmarks -> 192 KB
(/home/user/.bookmarks)
comm_and_cal -> 1,4 MB
(something in /home/user/, /tmp/.rtcom-accounts/ and /var/cache and lib)
settings -> ~30 MB
(maaaaany things of /home/user ^^, /etc/osso-af-init, /temp/.maesync and /var/lib a few things)

so it's very compressed

edit: settings (the ~30 MB) contain:
/etc -> 780 KB
/tmp -> nothing ^^
/var -> 35 KB
/home/user -> about 30 MB whereof 3,3 MB are settings (".$name") and the rest .purple (~27 MB whereof 20 MB are my pidgin logs)

call log? game levels? alarm clocks? contacts? bookmarks?
i dont know what else, just a guess.. mine just came to 19mb...

just take a look at my previous post.
there i broke down the contents of the backup-files.