Interesting. While I do have a good number of apps I think the bulk of
my iPhone content is media. While it's great that iCloud backs up
pointers to media stored on my computer, that means the iCloud backup
isn't really a full backup. If something goes kerfluey on my laptop the
copies on my phone are the only ones. Or is the assumption that my
generated content from the phone is being synced to icloud and then that
is synced to my laptop?
CB
On 12/14/14, 10:33 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Actually Chris, this is a common misconception. When your iDevice is backed up
to iCloud, the entire device is not necessarily backed up. That is, the OS and
pre-installed apps are grabbed from Apple, only markers and setup info is
stored for your apps as they are downloaded after the fact, and the same is so
for your music. The actual music is not stored in the iCloud backup, just a
database of the songs, playlists and such that you can restore either from
iTunes Match or your computer. Thus, it is feasible to keep multiple backups
of multiple iDevices in iCloud simultaneously.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Dec 13, 2014, at 20:25, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
The downside of iCloud backups is (I suspect) most folks have the free 5GB of
storage while most phones have a lot more than this to backup. I imagine very
few people can use iCloud backup without either paying for more storage or
stripping down what gets backed up to a bare minimum.
CB
On 12/13/14, 12:19 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Regarding iPhone backups. The process is as follows. If you have your iDevice
set to use iCloud Backups, then it will automatically backup to iCloud when
your iDevice is plugged in to power and connected to WiFi. this is regardless
of whether you have Mavericks, Yosemite, Windows or even a computer for that
matter. You can manually tell it to backup to iCloud from within the iCloud
area of Settings on your iDevice. If you have enabled iTunes WiFi Sync, then
your iDevices will sync with your Mac when they are both connected to the same
WiFi network and iTunes is open on the Mac. This is done over the air so you
don’t need to tether it with your USB cable in order for this to occur.
Realize though, that this is just syncing, it’s not backing up to iCloud. If
you have set your iDevice to backup to that same Mac instead of to iCloud, then
backups should occur using WiFi Syncing to that Mac.
Hope this makes sense.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Dec 8, 2014, at 16:49, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
I am having problems with understanding Yosemite after coming from Mavericks.
For instance, my understanding was if you locked your I phone, you could back
it up to iCloud. However, this is not for me, as when I do it, I always get
the message that the process failed. However, if I use my Mac mini or I Mac to
do this, my I phone gets backed up.
Another thing I just discovered today was, that I don’t have to have my I phone
connected to any devices and I can back it up to my I Mac or my Mac mini
without having to connect it although initially I did connect it to a cable in
the first instance when I was instructed to do so.
A very nice thing I discovered was that the iCloud website was better when
sorting out my rules as before on Mavericks the process was rather complicated.
It’s so nice that Apple have worked to tidy things up now. I’m so glad that
braille is working at last on Yosemite as my Focus 40 would not connect via
bluetooth. Such a positive note for a good operating system.
Thank you.
Kawal.
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