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kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

Posts: 185

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Backing up the iPhone?

Hi all,

I recently got myself an iPhone, and have it jailbroken and working under Linux using ssh/ipod-convienance from AUR. Works great with Amarok, although it didn't want to play nice with gtkpod.

Anyways, onto my real question...
Has anyone tried to make a "backup" of their iPhone under Linux? Since I will never be syncing with iTunes, I don't want anything to happen and lose my purchased apps/music, contacts, sms, settings, etc.

Would it be as simple as mounting the root filesystem with sshfs and making a tar / cpio archive (maybe rsync?) of the filesystem? I will probably be doing the backups once or twice a week.

Thanks,

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my0pic

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 206

Re: Backing up the iPhone?

I've jailbroken mine and use sshfs to mount it and then tar for backups with no issues. I also installed ncftp from cydia and use that to transfer large video files to or out of the iPhone.

kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

Posts: 185

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Re: Backing up the iPhone?

Awesome, I'll have to do that then.

Thanks

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