Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Re: iPhone Backup longevity

mardi 17 mars 2015

Re: [apple-iphone] Re: iPhone Backup longevity

I am a pc user which is why I recommended manual archiving by copying the backup periodically to another folder. A pain but saved me a couple of times. I usually make a copy before updating iOS or moving to a new computer. I mistakenly gave you a wrong file tree. When you get to Apple computer the next level is mobile sync not mobile computing. Backups are in the mobile sync folder.

Sue

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On Mar 17, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Brent flapdoodle@gmail.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

The archive option does not exist in the PC version of iTunes. Or put another way, I can't find it.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:36 PM, bim.bousman@gmail.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

MAYBE MY DESCRIPTION IS NOT TOTALLY EXACT:
I WROTE:The answer to my question:
iTunes keeps a "Running Backup" of your iPhone on your computer... every time that you do a backup, it "updates" the active running backup that is there... there is no provision to go back in time and restore the status as of a previous instant.
EXCEPT that when you choose to "archive" a backup, iTunes makes, timestamps, and saves the current copy, which does NOT get updated the next time that a backup is taken.
After you archive a backup, the next time that a backup is taken, a whole fresh new backup is made and the archived backup/backups remain unchanged until you choose to delete one or more of them.

LET ME TRY AGAIN:
Maybe when you choose to archive, it timestamps and saves the chosen backup,
and then creates a copy which it uses for the current running backup, or something like that...

The net result, regardless of how it does it, is that there is a copy of the archived backup there that you can restore from, plus a new running backup that is keeping track of how things are now...

BB