Hello,
Having some problems upgrading to iOS 5, seems this has identified a shortcoming in (perhaps my understanding of?) backups done in iTune..?
I like the fact every time I plug my iDevices into my (Windows 7) laptop iTunes fires up and it does a backup; in the past I've successfully restored these backs to my device after it has messed up etc. I have 3 iDevices, under Preferences I can see each with a backup (and latest date).
I plugged in my iPhone prior to upgrading - it did a backup & full sync. I then did the upgrade, several hours and various difficulties later (mostly errors relating to presumably overloaded Apple servers, then probably a "user error" in that post-upgrade I unplugged the cable as I thought it had hung again.. yet it seems in iOS 5 it now acts differently and can still be doing something despite not saying "Sync in progress" on the screen etc) tried plugging it in, unplugging etc, sync'ing, a few hours later I decided that while my phone was now upgraded it wasn't in too healthy-a state = restore from backup time. HOWEVER when I go to select a backup to restore it gives me the option to pick from one of three backups (one per iDevice I own), with the one for my iPhone being the one it AUTOMATICALLY took every time I plugged it in POST-upgrade (ie. from just a few minutes ago). What I obviously want is to go back to the backup that was automatically taken just BEFORE the upgrade took place.
Am I missing something? Is it right that every time you plug in a iDevice the backup it automatically takes OVERWRITES the one it took previously?? I thought (hoped!) these were delta backups and therefore I could go back to any point in time (within reason).. just never had need to actually attempt to do this (ie. attempt to pick a backup other than the latest taken).
HELP!
(thanks in advance..)
Having some problems upgrading to iOS 5, seems this has identified a shortcoming in (perhaps my understanding of?) backups done in iTune..?
I like the fact every time I plug my iDevices into my (Windows 7) laptop iTunes fires up and it does a backup; in the past I've successfully restored these backs to my device after it has messed up etc. I have 3 iDevices, under Preferences I can see each with a backup (and latest date).
I plugged in my iPhone prior to upgrading - it did a backup & full sync. I then did the upgrade, several hours and various difficulties later (mostly errors relating to presumably overloaded Apple servers, then probably a "user error" in that post-upgrade I unplugged the cable as I thought it had hung again.. yet it seems in iOS 5 it now acts differently and can still be doing something despite not saying "Sync in progress" on the screen etc) tried plugging it in, unplugging etc, sync'ing, a few hours later I decided that while my phone was now upgraded it wasn't in too healthy-a state = restore from backup time. HOWEVER when I go to select a backup to restore it gives me the option to pick from one of three backups (one per iDevice I own), with the one for my iPhone being the one it AUTOMATICALLY took every time I plugged it in POST-upgrade (ie. from just a few minutes ago). What I obviously want is to go back to the backup that was automatically taken just BEFORE the upgrade took place.
Am I missing something? Is it right that every time you plug in a iDevice the backup it automatically takes OVERWRITES the one it took previously?? I thought (hoped!) these were delta backups and therefore I could go back to any point in time (within reason).. just never had need to actually attempt to do this (ie. attempt to pick a backup other than the latest taken).
HELP!
(thanks in advance..)
