Deltoro,

sorry, no windows version available and also not really planned at the moment....

Kerry

Could you explain me, how does ibackup handle the permissions? I mean, when I restore the mobile folder, will ibackup set the user mobile as owner? And are all permissions the same as before?

Thank you for short answer.

Cheers

KerryXEX: Tried it (backup only) and it works on my 1.1.4 iPhone and iMac 10.5.2. Thanks!

l3inad:
the permissions are completely preserved; rights and also sticky bits etc. will be backed up and restored as in the orginial.
Ownership will also be reset to standard (root for root files and Applications, mobile for user data).

afm: thanks for the feedback! :-)

Kerry.

Great work, Kerry: thank you!

now the bad news: "Backup" works as expected but... "Standard Backup" doesn't (no archive is created). here's debug log:


#### Dialog selections ####
DST=/Users/paolo/Desktop
RST=
actB=1
actR=0
TDIR=/Users/paolo/Library/iBackup/data
### Checking iPhone Network ###
PING 10.0.1.4 (10.0.1.4): 56 data bytes

--- 10.0.1.4 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 46.735/63.479/73.536/11.919 ms
### Checking root access / RSA ###
.ssh
Library
Data volume=24422
###### Backup root files ######
rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28
Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
inplace, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
###### Backup mobile files ######
receiving file list ... done

sent 16 bytes received 10282 bytes 4119.20 bytes/sec
total size is 8378534 speedup is 813.61
###### Backup Applications ######
receiving file list ... done

sent 16 bytes received 26994 bytes 10804.00 bytes/sec
total size is 13204860 speedup is 488.89
###### Create zip Archive ######
1

Dear pl_svn (what the heck kind of names do you all have?? ;-)

misunderstanding... don't worry, the backup IS created. It's only not a seperate archive, but in your user's ../Library/iBackup/data
Standard restore will also get its files from there.

It's kept there and will only *update* the changes with every new backup. That's why the following standard backups will be much faster than the initial one.

Cheers,
Kerry.

Thank you, Kerry: there it is

(please... add a note in iBackup's ReadMe file )



btw... watch-out: there already is a mac app called iBackup

Dear all,

the new version 2.0 is just out now and ready to download at http://iBackup.up.to

I've rewritten the whole thing as a "real" MAC cocoa application instead of just a pimped shell script, which makes it much more beautiful ;-) and room for more functions and options:

*new* For individual backups and restores, the Scope of the targeted data can be selected between Applications, root files and user files (in any combination).
*new* "Update mode" will preserve newer files during a restore to protect updated iPhone applications or to restore accidentially deleted files without setting back your other data to the (older) state of the backup.
*new* Version 2.0 incorporates a comfortable communications setup that takes care of the bumpy RSA setup and resolves other compatibility issues of different unix tools distributions on the iPhone/IPT.

All the errors that occured so far (esp. with the communication setup, empty folders etc.) are all solved in this version and (hopefully) will not occur anymore.

I'm also providing some usage scenarios during the next days to better explain which function is for what... :-)

Hope you'll enjoy it!
Cheers,
Kerry.

Sorry if this is silly, but where is the backup stored on the mac. I cannot locate it?

For restoring from an archive, and to see the backup file etc.

Thanks in advance, great program BTW

tigres,

see only 2 posts above: the standard backup is in $HOME/Library/iBackup/data

In order to do a standard restore, you do NOT need to locate the archive as iBackup knows where that is! You only need to specify an archive if you want to restore form an individual backup (zipfile created from iBackup).