Corrupt Backup (really need something off it) - iPhone 3G

spud · 08-07-2008, 06:13 PM

Ok, i had to do a factory restore to my phone last night. Prior to restore, i did a 3+ hour backup. After that, i had 2 total backups. One from prior upgrade to 2.0.1 and the one before restore.

After restore, it solved the problem I was having. However after the sync, I didnt have ANY of my settings. Email setup, bluetooth setup, wifi setup, no pix that i took with the iphone directly, bunch of other nit noid stuff like what weather, stocks and timezones i check..

All of that was annoying to redo, but easily done.

However, the pix that I took with the Iphone I really want back.

Any way to get into the backup to extract those?

I assumed they were being synced with the other photos i had on there in the selected folders on my pc

spud · 08-08-2008, 02:20 PM

is there not a hack out there to pull info out of a backup?

MileHighRob · 08-10-2008, 04:24 AM

Just curious about something. When iTunes was attempting to backup your phone did you ever click the X to abort the operation or were you always allowing it to complete the backup each time it attempted to do so?

spud · 08-11-2008, 02:30 PM

i had two prior backups.

first one i did before the upgrade to 2.0.1
2nd one was before I did the "restore".

I have in the past hit the "x" button to skip a backup, b/c i dont need to do it every day.

MileHighRob · 08-12-2008, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spud

i had two prior backups.

first one i did before the upgrade to 2.0.1
2nd one was before I did the "restore".

I have in the past hit the "x" button to skip a backup, b/c i dont need to do it every day.

Hence 3+ hour backups and corrupt files.

Sorry, I don't know how to extract the files. I was mainly curious about aborting the backup process as this seems to be creating a lot of havoc for people.

spud · 08-12-2008, 02:02 PM

the other thread advised to do that so that it would not take as long to sync. I even followed the advice to delete all previous backups before doing the backup pre 2.0.1 OS upgrade...

dagoo98 · 08-12-2008, 05:31 PM

I've never had a backup that took longer than 3 minutes on my 16GB Iphone 3G.....Am I the only lucky one?

When you setup your new phone, did you select the option to send diagnostic information to Apple? I opted out of that and decided not to send any information to apple. Maybe that's what keeps my backups so snappy.

Eninety2 · 08-12-2008, 07:16 PM

o O. Mine takes abotu 15 minutes.

MileHighRob · 08-12-2008, 09:24 PM

You're not the only one. I've used the stop watch from my v1 phone a few times lately and my backups complete in less than 3 minutes.