Here's a support article from Apple that gives a little more information on backups. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946 Essentially, many things are included in a backup (i.e. bookmarks, settings, app data, and so forth) but not everything. Synced content such as music, apps themselves, books, and TV shows is not included in your backup but will most likely sync back to your device from iTunes once the restore process completes and the device reboots. Also, apps' tmp and caches folder will not backup, so you'll lose a bit of data within apps. Examples of data you will lose are temporary recordings in Ootunes and, in most cases, episodes downloaded via podcast clients.
While it's not perfect, a good rule of thumb is that if you allow iTunes to restore a backup to an iOS device and then do a sync, you should have most of your personal data. Some other data that can generally be downloaded or resynced, is not included. Another note is that if you don't password-protect your backups, you'll also lose your keychain which contains your account passwords. So in general, it's good to password-protect backups. Grant On 1/10/13, Arnold Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious: I have a 64-gig iPhone 5, which I back up to this windows > computer. At the moment, it has about 32 gig of music, books, podcasts, > apps, and a few other miscellaneous things. If I had to restore my phone > for some reason, would everything be put back into the proper places, ready > to use? That would mean there is a 32-gig file somewhere on my hard drive, > ready for ITunes to copy to my phone. Or, should I keep an inventory of > what is on the phone, in preparation for restoring some things manually? > > Thanks for any information. > > Arnold Schmidt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
