IPhone Backup / Restore questions

Maybe this has been covered here, but I am confused about backing up the data on my new iPhone -
1) When iTunes says "backing up iPhone" before the sync . . . what is it backing up? Contacts? Music? Pictures? Applications?
2) What does Restore do? It seems to indicate you will lose all of your data on the phone if you run restore.
3) If I replace my phone . . . or Apple does at some point for a battery . . . will the Backup/Restore features in iTunes restore all of my contacts, music, pictures and applications to the new phone?
While most things with the iPhone seem pretty intuitive, this whole process has me confused.
Dave

The backup that is created and maintained by iTunes stores data such as most iPhone settings, email account settings, SMS messages, notes created with the Notes application, recent calls, call favorites, data created and stored by 3rd party applications, and photos captured by your iPhone.
No need to backup iTunes content since your iTunes content remains on your computer and should be included with your computer's backup.
Regarding contact information and calendar events, the iPhone is designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer. The exception to this is with an Exchange account or MobileMe account, which provides for over the air syncing with this data.
With Vista, you can sync contact information and calendar events with Outlook 2003 or 2007, or Windows Contacts for contact information.
A Restore completely erases your iPhone followed by re-installing the current firmware version. After the current firmware version is re-installed, you are prompted to restore your iPhone from your iPhone's backup (which is the default selection), or as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup.
This must be followed by a sync with iTunes to re-transfer data not included with your iPhone's backup such as all iTunes content, 3rd party applications, contact information, calendar events, bookmarks, and photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone.

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Turn the iPhone off by holding the top key then sliding to OFF.
The Hold the Home KEY only while connecting to iTunes.
The iPhone will then need to be restored and you can choose from where to restore it from. It should pop up when you click restore with the option. If not then hold Control or Option on a Mac while you click Restore.

Using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore Questions

Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone has any experience in using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore.
My situation is that I am thinking of updating the firmware on my MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SSD to the latest version. However, from what I read, the update will wipe the mSATA SSD. Also, at the moment, I have been backing up my C:\ to an external HDD weekly using Lenovo's Enhanced Backup & Restore software.
My question is if my steps below are workable and if the Enhanced Backup & Restore program will restore my system back to the latest backup?
1. Use Enhanced Backup & Restore program to backup the latest image of my system.
2. Update firmware on my mSATA SSD. All data will be wiped.
3. Use my Recovery Discs to restore the mSATA SSD to Lenovo's factory image.
4. Use Enhanced Backup & Restore program to restore the latest image.
Any comments, anyone? Thanks in advance!

You can only restore to the same hub, as the serial numbers have to match.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

Backup/restore questions LMS 4.2

Hello,
I have several questions regarding data migration from LMS 3.2.1 to LMS 4.2.We will perform backup and restore procedure on new LMS4.2 server machine .
1. I am wondering what will happen with admin password aftrer restore, and all the other passwords in LMS. What will be effective? What will happen with database passwords?
2. Other thing is : LMS 3.2.1 is installed on D:\ProgramFiles\CSCOpx and the new LMS 4.2.1 is installed in D:\CSCOpx
Will there be problems during restore, because the paths on old and new LMS server are not the same?
3. When to perform the licensing? Should I apply license before restore? I think I would have to apply it before beacause customer has 300 devices and eval license iz for 100 only.
4. Does PI_CM license - Compliance Management License comes with the product? How do we get this license? I am aware that this CAAM is new feature in 4.2 version so I am not sure does the customer have rights on it. They have bought upgrade from 3.2 to 4.1 and they have valid support contract so we will go to 4.2 version.
Thanks!
Marija

Following are the answers :
1. LMS's user info and passwords are stored in cwpass file under NMSROOT\lib\classpath\com\cisco\nm\cmf\servlet, which is also
backed up with DB backup. Hence restore would bring all previous user names and passwords.
2. Ciscoworks has a mechanism which doesn't bothers the install directory. It sets environment variable as NMSROOT which is replaced by
the install directory and hence there should not be any issue. Please note that Inter-OS resotre are not supported.
3. You can apply the license anytime, but it is good to install it before backup restore, else the excess of devices, more than 100
will go to unmanaged state and will have to be brought back to managed state once lic is applied.
4. CAAM lic has to be purchased separately. You can contact lic. team or your accounts team for this.Till that time you can use it with its 60 days eval lic.
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Win 7 Backup/Restore Questions

I have questions about Windows 7 Backup & Restore. From everything I am reading, it would appear that the program performs as advertised, but some of the traits I am witnessing just don't make any sense to me, and when it comes to Backup/Restore
(B/R), things need to make sense.
Q1: I have a machine that is configured with three (3) accounts: one is a privileged account (admin), and the other two are normal non-privileged accounts (acct1 and acct2 for reference purposes). I perform the backup from the admin account, backing
up the entire machine (all accounts). The backup completes without error. If I then Restore Files to view what was saved, I am shown the admin account, and acct1 as available to restore. Acct2 is not visible! Why not? Am I not
allowed to restore this account as admin? If it is a permissions issue, then why can I see and select acct1? If I logout of admin and login to acct2, and run B/R from there, the admin and acct2 backups are visible, but not acct1. So I know
the data got backed up, but why am I not able to see all the backup accounts when running as admin? If I had a machine with 15 accounts, does this mean I would have to login to each account to restore its files when rebuilding after losing a drive?
Q2: Backups are tagged by date. If I run B/R daily, it appears that the backup is retagged with a date range. If I wait a number of days to perform the second backup, I may get a second backup entry with the new date. What algorithm is
being used to determine when to extend a backup, and when to create a new entry? Is there a trigger that I can use that will force the creation of new entry, and not extend an existing entry, or vice-versa?
Q3: Everything suggests that with multiple backups, the oldest backup represents a full set of files, and subsequent backups are incremental. Exactly what is meant by incremental. I would expect this to mean that any file that has not changed
since the last time it was backed up would not be part of a new backup. Or stated the other way, any file that has changed since the last time it was backed up would be part of the new incremental backup. If I have 4 backups, will B/R examine all
4 to determine whether a file needs to be included in the new incremental backup (I assume so)? If I have 15 backups will B/R examine all 15 to calculate the new incremental (I assume so)? If I decide to manage space and delete the oldest backup,
will a subsequent backup operation resave all my old files that have not changed since the first backup but are now missing from the backup set (I assume so)? If so, then any space gained by deleting the original backup will disappear after the new incremental
completes. Would it be better to delete only the older incremental backups to free up space?
Q4: If I were writing this program, I would expect that contained in each backup is an index to all the saved files along with their dates of existence. I would have to scan ALL backups to create an index of ALL files with their respective save dates.
I could then compare the current file path and date with the name and date in the archive to determine whether the current file needed to be included in the new incremental. If this is the case, is there some point where deleting some of the older backups
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Hi,
First question, I'm sorry for never heard this problem, I would made a test in our test enviroment, After that, I would provide the result at here.
For other questions , I would like to suggest you read the link below for some details about system backup.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.backup.aspx
Roger Lu
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Backup/restore question

When you do a backup or restore, is any of the information on the microSD card copied/restored? If not, how do you backup the songs, photos, etc., that are on the card? Do you just copy the info from windows explorer? I am running win7RC and have a Tour.
While I'm thinking about it, I would like to get a larger microSD card. What's the best way to transfer the info from the old card to the new one?
Thanks in advance from a new guy
Solved!
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The backup/restore process doesn't touch the media card. You can just use Windows Explorer to copy the contents of the media card. I just got a new media card recently and I just copied the entire BlackBerry folder onto my PC, then inserted the new card, then copied the BlackBerry folder onto the media card.
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Preparing iPhone for restore -- Questions!

I was just making sure this is the stage in the update that is
A: Having the issues
B: Taking the longest
I'm unable to go back and forth from my Iphone to The store, and my iphone has an image of the itunes logo and the connector piece on the screen. It has been this way for a few hours now and was wondering what I can do.

I got the same thing basically... 3g iphone, updated to software version 2.0.1 It returned an unknown error (6) and dropped my iPhone from iTunes. I got the "plug into iTunes" message on the phone and I started restore. Upon restore it hung up on "preparing iPhone for restore" for an hour, no movement of the progress bar, I disconnected it and plugged it in again, This happened 2 more times after a computer and iPhone reboot.
I read that it doesn't work well on usb 1.1, so I switched to a usb 2.0 port and it appears to be working, restore is almost complete. So, really, check your usb, make sure there is no hub connected and plug DIRECTLY into a usb 2.0 port... hopefully that helps!
If I have the option not to restore to 2.0.1 I will likely take that option... I've spent hours on this now and my intention for syncing was to update a playlist... Although I couldn't play music through my RAZR, I never spent hours (and lost the use of my phone on a Friday night) trying to make it work again... good luck to you.

Question on iphone backup & restoring on another persons itunes.

I backed up my iphone on my sisters computer with all her files like music, photos, movies, & so on, because I have to get a replacement for a damaged phone
My question now is, when i come to restore the new iphone will all my phones entire data and files like contacts, photos, music, apps and so on still show up jusy like they did on the old damaged phone?

A back up stores many things if you would like to know what it stores this link will tell you:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
Now whatever was on the iPhone when it backed up should return when restoring the back up of the old iPhone to the replacement.
In terms of content downloaded from the iTunes & App Store this content is saved to iTunes through a feature caled transfer Purchases. Now this can happen during a back up but might not have. If this content was tranferred to iTunes on your sisters PC then it should sync back to the iPhone after you restore from back up. If it does not sync back to the iPhone you can still redownload the content as all purchases paid/free are attached to the Apple ID the were downloaded with.

Iphone backup / restoring!!

Hi guys,
wondering if someone could help.
My Iphone and a few others are all backed up to the same itunes account.
Is it possible for example, that if somebody else gets a new iphone device, they can restore my last backup (backup my iphone created) onto there new device? Or would it ask for the apple ID in which the backup was created? Or a passcode or something?
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You can encrypt the backup which will force entry of the correct password before a restore. More information in iTunes: About iOS backups

ISE 1.2 backup restore questions

Hi all,
I have been looking at the backup and restore procedure for ISE deployments and have to say I have found the documentation to be somewhat confusing in general. Whilst I get the gist of it I have found numerous areas that are grey. This question is the first of many but here we go.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/user_guide/ise_user_guide/ise_backup.html#pgfId-1073378
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Iphone 4S Restore Question

Hi guys,
I'm looking at getting a used iphone 4S from Amazon. It will be a CDMA phone that was used on Verizon. I want to restore the phone before activating or using. If I restore will the phone loose any of its information I will need to give the carrier like the MEID?
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Hey ElfLord10,
Thanks for the question. Nope! The IMEI/MEID/Serial Number are all related to the device itself. You can learn about how to find these numbers on a device that may have not yet been setup:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4061
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Important Backup/Restore Question

I lost my iPhone and bought a new one. I backed it up on iTunes however after I started using my new one I forgot to restore the backup onto my new phone.
If I restore the old backup on my iPhone will it overwrite the data that's currently on my new device?
I'm mainly concerned with SMS and contact as my old backup has SMS's I'd like to have on my device however I have some currently on the device I don't want to loose. Same goes with the contacts.
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If you restore an iTunes backup, it will completely overwrite everything on your device right now with everything that was on your other device when you backed it up.

Can't get into Notes after iPhone backup restore

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You will migrate in this case.. otherwise you are going to restore Mountain Lion.
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