My wife's iTouch after the last round of upgrades just sort of had a useless backup. I know 2 others who also had huge issues late last year with the iOS upgrades. It's not just the admin but that last go around of updates with weird issues and useless backups.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > iTunes always performs a backup before it upgrades any device. If you > cancel the backup, the upgrade won’t even continue. That said, I do not > believe the backup contains the Contacts, rather, it re-syncs them after > the upgrade is complete. That may be different if the setting in iTunes is > to not sync contacts.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* justino garcia [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:33 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers????* > *** > > ** ** > > I had a admin assistant hand IT her idevice, and support went to upgrade > her to ios 5, and bamn lost her contacts, and the backup that the itunes on > the support staff PC, created a backup, but did not backup her personal > contacts WHY WHY > > I would wish that a none itunes soultion would allow for Backups of > Idevices (ios), like you can with blackberries... > > And she is to blame, for not using a cloud solution to backup her personal > contacts... But apple also to blame in not creating a full backup before a > major OS update..**** > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:** > ** > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Matthew W. Ross**** > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What about creating an Apple ID and "registering" the iDevice? Is > >> that all possible natively, now? (I haven't kept up.) > > > > As of iOS 5.0, it's all on the device.**** > > Good to know. Thanks. :)**** > > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > > > > -- > Justin > IT-TECH**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
