I recently had to send my Xperia S back to Sony, because it died on me after the last software update. Fortunately (or so I thought at the time) I had just done a backup and restore on Sony PC Companion, so I thought all my previous apps, settings and other data was safe.
Now I have tried to restore my previous data in backup and restore, but you don't seem to be able to restore, without doing a new backup, which has all the settings and stuff on it I don't want. So how does that work? If you back something up, surely it's because you want to be able to access it, without having it overwritten by something else?
