The simple way to make an alternative backup of your iPhone.
Many people know that the iTunes backup is not good. Sometimes, you lost your contacts, SMS, etc. Thinking about this, I developed a tool called BackToUp. What it do, is create an alternative backup of your iPhone that is independent of iTunes.
The program is pretty good and make the backup of:
- Contacts
- Text Messages (SMS)
- Bookmarks and History of Safari
- Call History
- Calendar
- Notes
- Bookmarks and History of Maps
- General Preferences (ringtone, etc)
Also, BackToUp can:
- Create a backup
- Restore a device using a backup
- Erase backups
- Update a backup
Download link:
BackToUp 1.0 – Mac OS X – Binary
Bye!
BigBoss Authors: Mark Bruce & Kory LeeTags: iphone backup
May 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Does it also backup icon placement? What about 3rd party apps (both App Store and Non-App Store) and preferences for those apps?
May 16th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
where does it store the backupfile?
May 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Dose it back up cydia apps like winterboard
May 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Users/YouriPhonename_backtoup.dat
May 17th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I need the software to be install in my IPHONE or Window Vista Buisness
May 17th, 2009 at 3:41 am
is there a windows vista version?
May 17th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Windows version needed nothing more
May 17th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Does it back up cydia apps, intaller apps, icy apps, kryptes apps, mods, themes, etc.??????????????????
May 17th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Please make and nice GUI interface!
May 17th, 2009 at 11:13 am
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May 17th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Just launched it on a PPC Mac and it won’t run (Bad CPU), so I guess it’s Intel-only…
May 17th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I double clicked on BAcktoUp and Terminal opened and it said a bunch of stuff.. who knows what it said. Thanks for not warning the average user that this app is useless unless you know how to use it without directions.
Guess when I opened the Read Me file and it didn’t contain ANY useful info (all is said was to double click on BacktoUp then follow the on screen directions) I should have stopped but I thought ON SCREEN directions would show … unfortunately they didn’t.
Hopefully someone reads this and saves the time loaded something onto they comp that they will never use.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Win version PLZ!
Thx :)
May 18th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
fucking gay that you didn’t make this for windows users too…. DUMB ASS!!! PS. next time you release something make sure that something isn’t half ass done!!!
May 18th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
app doesnt work
May 18th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
With as poor a grammatical name as it has, what did you expect?
May 19th, 2009 at 5:05 am
pissed off…the app is free…what else did you expect? If you want the Win version…why don’t you do it yourself?
May 19th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Really, Stop wasting our time, just because we all paid top dollar for our iPhones doesn’t mean we didn’t shop for the better deal and go PC!
May 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I cant believe all of you people are being such assholes to an iphone program developer who’s TRYING to make an App that will allow you to enjoy your phone even more than you currently do. All I hear is boo-hoo, no PC version and blah, blah, blah. Why dont you all show some respect… let the developer work out the bugs and than when its done you can thank him for the FREE App he just created! If I remember correctly whenever a new jailbreak tool comes out its usually available for OSX the first week or so, and than it becomes available for PC users shortly afterwards. Maybe some of you ungrateful, picky bastards should develop your own version of the App for PC’s and then share it with the community instead of whining about how picked on you are and how much of your precious time you wasted on this FREE program. BTW …… Thank you pH.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Hey, great app. I just backed up my iPhone files. Now how exactly would I restore it and put these files back on? I know the second option is to restore device using backup, but do I just run the Terminal, hit 2, and that’s it? Do I do nothing with iTunes? What do I do if I’m restoring my iPhone and iTunes asks me if I want to create a new user or restore a backup?
May 19th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
i like it
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 am
Right on mate!
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
I respect that the developer is making free apps for others to use but again atleast state that there is no directions and unless you are an advanced user you might not want to waste your time with this specific app.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Dud, I just download and run it, it works perfectly, and very easy to use.
just read the steps carefully.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Big thanks.
perfect app. I just backed up my iphone, but it looks work for restore too.
May 25th, 2009 at 1:24 am
@BigBoss: Please do mention iBaRes 2.4.5 as well.
Full Backup/Restore with iTunes = Perfect symbiosis !
Free & very reliable…
Just G00gle it !
May 25th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Bigboss,,,, please ignor those bustard,, who even don’t know how you strive hard just to come up with a good Apps………. thatnks for sharing your hard work…..
May 29th, 2009 at 5:38 am
is it possible that u will release a windows version?
May 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I’m afraid that it only works on Intel Mac’s it
doesn’t work on the older PPC Mac’s. Can you make
a change in the code to target PPC, and publish it?
Thanks!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
bigboss,
Thanks for this handy app. As I was backing up, I got the message…”root@192.168.0.195 password”. I tried every password I could think of, but it kept asking. My iPhone.dat is only 4k so I guess it did’nt work. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
RW
June 10th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Did you try “alpine”?
June 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Hence the OSX binary on the download button…
June 13th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Clean up that language.
Since when are people who write programs for their own use, then have the courtesy to share them with those of us who don’t have time to write code for fun anymore, required to write more code that is useless to them and supports only idiots who run another OS?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I have to iphone version 1.14 and I download backtoup to my mac and it says this after: cannot execute binary file
logout
[Process completed]
Am I missing something because its not working? Do I need to have another program? Help please.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:56 am
What’s “gay” is that you’re pissed about something that’s FREE not doing something you want it to do. Tell you what, go run down to your local liquor store, ask him if he has a free pack of matches. When he hands you a white one, throw it back in his face and scream “F*(#ing GAY that you don’t have a RED one for me, you DUMB A&&!!” and see what happens.
Jeez.. people are amazing. Ok.. out of the pool! Get OUT of the GENE POOL!
June 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
It would not hurt a bit if the creator of this App spent another 30 seconds to write simply this short warning (like the Dev Team): “For now, MAC users only please, Win folks give us some time”.
I like what LeeMahn had put up there but if he ever realized giving a gallon of diesel will not make a guy (whose gasoline drivencar stopped in the middle of the road) any happier. Folks were mislead by the way the creator put and they do have the right to be angry regardless of such free will.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I am running OSX, even if I have an older PPC computer. You need to specify that it is not a Universal Binary – It only works on Intel machines.
January 18th, 2012 at 8:28 am
HEY MARINA THIS WAS A FUN GAME UH