Comments on: BigBoss Releases AptBackup To Restore Installed Cydia Applications

By: AppleChick

AppleChick — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:30:37 +0000

Be careful when trying to “restore” your apps by copying the files back to the iPhone – there are permissions that need to be changed also or else nothing you copy over will work. It’s a better idea to just use Chronous to backup settings and AptBackup to backup Cydia.

By: JadeStar

JadeStar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:53:02 +0000

Earlier today I installed OpenSSH daemon w/ Cydia, and also Terminal app. With the ssh daemon running, you can use any operating system to connect to your iPhone over wifi to upload or download any files you wish. I’m backing up the whole thing right now (lots of apps I don’t want to lose)

I’m still not sure how to install apps back to the iPhone (without Installer or Cydia) if they get deleted, but actually backing up the files is a great first step. Presumably, I can just copy the relevant files back to where they were, but we’ll see ;)

I plan to attempt deleting/restoring at least one app with data before doing anything dangerous like “updating” (aka fixing it when it ain’t broken)

By: Michael Nichols

Michael Nichols — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:50:28 +0000

I’d like to know where specifically it keeps the backup of the Cydia apps, because I restored with an image that didn’t have aptbackup on it and now I can’t remember what all of those great apps I had before….. Is there a way to “hack” into the backup and retrieve the list?

Mikey

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:12:33 +0000

But iBaReS is only available for Macs. Is there a PC equivalent?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:11:47 +0000

iBaReS is only available for Macs. Is there a PC equivalent?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:03:56 +0000

Take a look at iBaReS in the Google forums, it does a real and FULL backup of ALL the settings, including 3rd Party Apps and Data!!!

By: nicodemus3d

nicodemus3d — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:34:44 +0000

oops, my bad just seen that appbackup only backs up my official appstore apps

By: nicodemus3d

nicodemus3d — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:34:08 +0000

I use aptbackup in conjunction with appbackup to save some of my settings

By: Alias420

Alias420 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:02:21 +0000

Unfortunately app settings don’t get saved, however the developer does note this short coming. Perhaps a framework will be developed in the future to store this data.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:15:30 +0000

That is great, but what about all the databases associated with those APPS???

The apps are a pain to re-install so this makes it easier, sure, but what about the data you had in all the apps? That data is a lot more complicated to re-create than re-installing apps.

We really need a real backup system that backs up the Apps list, their databases and things like themes, custom icons & sounds, etc…