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Total iPhone Backup - for what?
While there have been some trivial hints before, I think this falls under the category "badly wrote" rather than "purposeless".
Total iPhone Backup - for what?
It's not badly written, you are just ignorant. It treats the iphone as it actually is, a device with it's own operating system and file structure and makes a copy of that file structure. It doesn't matter which iOS version.
Total iPhone Backup - for what?
No, it's poorly written. Take a look at that rsync command and the prerequisites. Note the commenters asking if it applies only to jailbroken iOS devices.
Total iPhone Backup - for what?
Ignorant -- adj. 1. Lacking knowledge or awareness in general.
I understand precisely what the command does and the hint makes perfect sense to me and is concise and understandable. If you don't know what rsync does or don't know how your iphone works, i.e. you are ignorant, that is not the fault of the hint writer. Next time perhaps you could do a little googling on your own instead of roasting the hint submitter. Jailbreaking the device or the iOS version has nothing at all to do with this hint, I can't imagine why the thought would even occur to the submitter to inform people of those things.
Considering I get 706 hits on this site alone for rsync, it's reasonable to expect the readers of this site to be less lazy and not expect every single hint to tailor to their precise needs/level of knowledge.
Total iPhone Backup - for what?
Just thought I'd mention that I for one was not aware that this hint did not require jailbreaking. Can you really mount and access your whole filesystem without jailbreaking?
Total iPhone Backup - for what?
Not in my experience. I posted about it somewhere on this link, but I'm only able to mount media using PhoneView on an unjailbroken iOS device. PhoneView will mount media AND root for a jailbroken device as I recall.
Total iPhone Backup - requires jailbreak
That's what I thought. (I didn't actually try it myself.) So this hint does require jailbreaking.
Total iPhone Backup - requires jailbreak
Did any of the complainers even go to PhoneDisk link conveniently provided in the hint? Right on the developer's front page, it says "Works with or without jail breaking the device".
Total iPhone Backup - requires jailbreak
Umm... yes, PhoneDisk works, but as many have said, you can't access the root without jailbreaking. From the FAQ on the website:Perhaps you can tell us how to get a full system backup without having access to the whole system?
Total iPhone Backup - requires jailbreak
You are correct; to gain full access requires jailbreaking. I have amended the hint accordingly. |
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