backup questions

[felixen]

I have an unjailbroken ipod touch now. Tomorrow I'm getting the iphone 3gs and I hear I can use the ipod backup that itunes create on my new iphone so I wont lose all my game saves and app settings and such. Is this correct?

Also, are there any way I can keep this backup and make sure it's not overwritten in the future? The thing is, I might jailbreak my iPhone and I want to be able to go back to this backup.

Another thing that bothers me is that if I jailbreak now, then when a the next update comes out I will have to restore my iphone and jailbreak it again.. And then I guess I wont be able to use the backup image since it's a new firmware version. So how can I transfer my saves and settings and all that? I wish iTunes would just sync the data and embed it into the app file that's stored in your iTunes..

 

[felixen]

http://groups.google.com/group/ibares/web/ibares---homepage?pli=1

This answers all my questions check it out if you dont know. it backs up all apps and stuff and you can get them back after updating, restoring, jailbreaking and all that ****. Just what I needed

 

[-aggie-]

The backup is located here:

On Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

On Windows Vista:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\AppleComputer\MobileSync\Backup

On Mac:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

So, all you have to do is copy those files to a safe place and you can get the backup back. Also, you should just copy the iTunes folder to a safe place also. It might be safer to so that than relying on the software you posted.