HowTo Manually BackUp Your iPhone

 HowTo Manually BackUp Your iPhone

 

 

Before i start on telling you how to backup your phone, i want to make sure you know how to SSH, so i wont recieve tons of emails from you asking me how to do that. Learn how to SSH: Mac and Windows

How to save Contacts Database:

• SSH into the iPhone and go to /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook
• you will find 2 files there. save them on your computer.

How to save Messages Database:

• SSH to your phone and go to /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS
• Save sms.db on your computer

How to backup Calendar:

• SSH into your device and go to /private/var/mobile/Library/Calendar
• Copy Calendar.sqlitedb to your computer

How to backup Notes:

• SSH into your dedvice and go to /private/var/mobile/Library/Notes
• Copy notes.db and notes.idx to your computer

How To back up Photos:

This doesent necesarelly require any SSH. You can just connect your iPhone to the computer and copy your photos:

Mac

• connect iPhone
• open iPhoto and copy your photos

or use iPhoneExplorer. Read about it here

Windows

• connect iPhone
• open MyComputer
• you will see the iPhone as a new device ( a photo camera ) . Open it and save your photos

IF you prefer SSH , this is what you need to do:

• SSH into your iPhone
• go to /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/

NOTE:

For videos shot with iPhone 3Gs, you need the same path ( correct me if i am wrong )

How to backup Mail:

Email itself doesnt need any backup. Your iPhone or your computer is not the server for your email accounts, so you dont need to worry about loosing your emails accounts. However, you might want to save your email account as you set them up on your iPhone, so you wont need to go to all that process once again.

• SSH into your device
• go to /private/var/mobile/library/ and just copy the folder called “Mail” to your computer

How to backup Visual Voicemail:

• SSH into your device
• go to  var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/voicemail.db
• Individual voicemails are stored as 1.amr, 2.amr, etc. in the same folder. If you’ve recorded a custom greeting, it’s stored as Greeting.amr.

How to backup videos from 3rd party apps:

Cycorder

• SSH into your device
• go to /private/var/mobile/media/videos

iPhone Video Recorder for 3G:

• SSH into your device
• go to /private/var/mobile/media/iphonevideorecorder/

How to backup files downloaded with Safari DL Plug-In

• SSH into your device
• go to /var/mobile/Library/Downloads

How to backup your Call History:

• SSH into your iPhone
• go to /var/mobile/Library/CallHistory/

copy call_history.db to your computer

 SSH:

This is ( in my opinion ) the first thing you need to learn after you jailbreak your iPhone ( OS 3.0 Mac and Windows ). First thing you need to do is to get a couple of things from Cydia: OpenSSH and SBSettings.

After SpringBoard respring , swipe your finger from the top of the iPhone/iTouch screen down to access SBSettings and make sure OpenSSH is turned ON. Also make sure you are on WiFi and WiFi is turned ON as well.

Next thing is to know your WiFi IP. You can find it out either in SBSettings or Settings>Wifi> Tap on the blue arrow next to your connection.

Now you gotta download a SSH client called Cyberduck. You can download it here.(http://cyberduck.ch/Cyberduck-3.2.dmg) Unmount the .dmg file and install the client on your Mac. Now connect your iPhone/iTouch and load Cyberduck. In the first screen just click on Open Connection on the upper left corner.

Now select SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) from the drop down menu at the top of the screen, for the server enter your IP address, username: root and password: alpine. Now click on Connect.

While connecting to your iPhone/iTouch you might get a host key mismatch. Dont worry about it just click Allow.

Thats it, congrats! Now, you can browse your iPhone or iTouch.

 iPhone Explorer: Use Your iPhone Like A USB Pen ( Mac )

iPhone Explorer is a new application for Mac, that allows you to use your iPhone as a USB pen. The software is still in testing, which is why the developers, often release new version with improvements in both graphical and technical. With iPhone Explorer is extremely simple to copy, drag and remove files and folders from your iPhone.

Adding a new folder is as simple as  clicking on the button “+”. But be careful with the “-” button because you can easily delete something important and … well you can guess the rest.

iPhone Explorer can be downloaded free by clicking here. (http://www.mypodapps.com/iPhone_Browser_Mac/release/iPhoneExplorerAlpha.zip) Like i said above, this software is still in Alpha state, and the only downside is that you need to check, the official website daily to see if they updated it.