A smarter way to back up your info.

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A smarter way to back up your info.
You have all sorts of important stuff on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iCloud automatically backs it up daily over Wi-Fi when your device is connected to a power source. Once you plug it in, everything is backed up quickly and efficiently. That’s because Backup is like everything else in iCloud: convenient and completely effortless.
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Most people find backing up to CDs or DVDs woefully inadequate with modern media files and library sizes. In addition, when you change the tags on some files then you have to back up the whole thing again to a whole new set of DVDs rather than just update a few files. Definitely get an external drive (it will be cheaper in the long run) and make backing up your iTunes files part of a strategy to back up the whole hard drive.

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Which is the fastest and best way to back up your data in case of any problem ? Still to transfer to an external HD ?
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Hi Ferro;
Best and simplest way to back up is Time Machine to an external drive.
I think that any backup plan should alway be to an external drive. If you backup to an internal drive and the Mac fails, what good is your backup then?
Allan

Different ways of backing up songs/info on ipod

i want to know all of the ways of backing up my songs on my ipod, so if i had to reformate and or reset it, ect.
im thinking about buying a external hard drive, should i get one with a firewall port as with a usb?
thanks for all the help.

Well…. You can Use iTunes for Backing up your Music.
It works fine for music files BUT: I prefer more control over my backup process, and it is also important to note that a large limitation of using iTunes to manage the backup is that the iTunes method does not maintain the two meta-data files (iTunes Library.itl & iTunes Music Library.xml) where your Playlists, Ratings, Playcounts, etc. are stored. See: What are the iTunes Library files?
If you are heavily invested in your Library data (playlists, playcounts, ratings, last played, date added, etc.), then it is critical that you also make multiple backups of your ‘iTunes Library.itl’ file.
If your music is located under one common Folder (e.g.-‘iTunes’), then it is easiest to physically copy that folder and all its sub-folders in one simple process. It can be done quickly, and incrementally – several times a day, when necessary.
In the case of any data loss, just re-copy your entire (or partial) music library back to wherever it was, placing it in the main Folder that the previous iTunes expected. Along with the .ITL meta-data file, this completes a full ‘restore’ of your music to the time of your last backup.
Use of a backup software program will greatly help. It will allow you to easily perform incremental backups of only the files that have changed. WinXP has such a facility built-in. I use a free program (FileSync: http://www.fileware.com ). There are many out there. Some use Zipped files or proprietary formats, others use standard file formats. I like FileSync as it uses normal file formats that can be viewed/managed via any Windows program or utility.
Here's a list of possible ways to copy your music files from your main iTunes computer to another storage medium for backup purposes.
1) Use an External Hard Drive to store the complete iTunes meta-data files and underlying Music Folder structure and songs from your main computer. They are quite cheap now, for their storage volume. This is my preferred main medium.
2a) If you have two computers, connect them through a router -- or – use a Direct (w/Mac) or Crossover (PC/PC) Ethernet cable (See: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3001.html). Copy files from one computer to the other.
2b) Or - Connect the two computers via a USB-to-USB Network Bridge. See: http://www.usbgear.com/link/index.html as an example.
Use the second PC as your backup repository.
3) Burn several DVDs (at 4.7+ GBs each) with the music data files and store them safely. Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your DVD drive can manage these).
4) Burn 6x more on CDs (at 700MB each) than in #3 above and store them safely in more space Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your CD drive can manage these).
5) Use a larger USB Flash drive (1GB - 4GB) to store the files only if you have a small amount ripped music or have multiple and/or jumbo USB drives at your disposal that will fit your music library.
6) Use the second internal hard drive (if available) of your PC -- not optimum, as you really want to physically separate the storage of backups from the originals, but good as a tertiary storage device.
By keeping only one copy of your music (other than on the iPod), you are not truly 'backed-up' and are running a high risk of losing your music.
It is a good policy to backup all your important data. It is a very smart policy to back it up on more than one medium.
External hard drives now run less than $100 for 200-250GBs of storage. Very cheap backup insurance.

Is there a way to back up your itunes library onto a disk?

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hi so my iphone shut off randomly and went into recovery mode so i had to reset the whole thing and erase everything and for some reason my phone went back to when i was in grade nine all my old pictures,songs,contacts verything. my phone said it was last backed up yesterday which is what i want my phone to be now but i accedently clicked back up now but i didnt even know i clicked it till after it was dont so now my phone was backed up this old content three years ago is there a way to go go back and restore my phone with a back up i did a couple days ago or is that all overwritten now?

Most people find backing up to CDs or DVDs woefully inadequate with modern media files and library sizes. In addition, when you change the tags on some files then you have to back up the whole thing again to a whole new set of DVDs rather than just update a few files. Definitely get an external drive (it will be cheaper in the long run) and make backing up your iTunes files part of a strategy to back up the whole hard drive.

Best way to back up your app.

What is considered "Best Practices" for the method of saving different versions of your APEX application as you are developing, so that you can go back to that version if something goes wrong?
APEX allows you to Export/Import as well as to copy the application to the same workspace. Which technique is best, or should I do both?
Clearly the Export allows you to save the app to a different location, but if you're not going to deploy it elsewhere, is that necessary? On the other hand, Exporting lets you get the backup out of your workspace, making it less cluttered. Any ideas on this?
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It sounds more complicated than it is. Subscribing allows you to keep logic (templates, lists, lovs) in one application and make sweeping changes across all applications which subscribe. It is good for companies that want a consistent look and feel across all applications.
Picture in your Region template you put a logo in the top left hand corner and you have 30 Apex applications in your environment that all look the same. The marketing geniuses at your company decide that the best way to overhaul a company is by changing the logo and now you have to change all the pages to use this new logo. Instead of the http://company/url.jpg your pages pointed at, you now need to repoint every url to http://company/new_logo.jpg.
If you use subscriptions, you can change the Region template once in the "master" application, and all applications which subscribe to that Region template automatically get updated. Maybe not the most realistic example, but it is pretty powerful.
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Is there a way to back up contact info only?

Is there a way to reset the iPhone (clear everything) and only restore my contact info. Basically I want to reset my phone back to the condition when I bought it but keep my contact info. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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You can erase all content and settings, then sync.
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Is there a way to back Up your Ipad to an external hard drive (Windows XP PC)

Is there a way to change the directory where a backup is stored? I don't have enough room on my Windows XP laptop and want to backup my iPad to an external hard drive.

There are some wireless external hard drives that can be used with the iPad.
The Kingston Wi-Drive, which costs $50 for the 16 Gigabyte, and then $30 more for every 16 gigs more. It works by you turning it on and then accessing the files on it from an app that you download on your iDevice. You can access music, movies, and other stuff. No connections or anything, it works like a WiFi connection, you connect to it from the setting on the iPad under wireless networks.
Then there is the Seagate GoFlex, which some would recommend over the Wi-Drive. But this one costs $199 and had 500 Gigabytes of storage. It works the sameway as the Kingston: no wires, runs over its wireless connection. You can actually fit up to 300 HD movies on it.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/1153935/hyperdrive.html
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Disk Utility>Restore will copy the OSX, the Recovery Partition and ALL user data. It will be an identical copy of the internal HDD.
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If its not switched on, then you can't.
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Great way to back up music if you cant do it in iTunes

Here is what I found inside the "disk mode" in the iPod.
To see this, make sure you enabled seeing hidden files and folders.
Go to the iPod's disk mode, then there will be a hidden folder called iPod_Control (That's what it says on my windows PC) Inside that folder, there will be a folder called "music." inside that folder there will be a number of folders named "F00," "F01," and so on.
Inside those folders are your music, named with random letters. But these are your songs on your iPod. To back up these files, drag them to a folder of your own.
Great way to back up your files if you are reinstalling iTunes.

Haha thanks! You're the best! I'm planning on sending my broken iPod Nano to Apple for a new one and uncoincidentally my computer is broken too (with iTunes on it) so I couldn't back up my music. But thanks to u I can back up my Nano before sending it away on this computer without the use of iTunes

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How do I back up Contacts on my iPhone 3 I got back in 2008? With MobileMe closing down, is there a way Ican export my Contacts info to my laptop. Alternately can I use iCloud with an iPhone this old?

Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 along with syncing calendar events and notes, or with the address book app used by Windows Mail called Windows Contacts for syncing contacts only.
Before syncing contacts with an empty Windows Contacts address book, enter one contact in Windows Contacts. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data which you want to select. Syncing direct with Windows Contacts via the iTunes sync process is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.

When I go to restore my phone; is there any way to pick what you want back on your phone or do you have to get everything backed up?

When I go to restore my phone; is there any way to pick what you want back on your phone or do you have to get everything backed up?

Thank you. I was afraid of that. I backed up from iCloud. I looked at the iTunes one - it had four different ones on there; was hoping I could see because my grandson's phone was redone last year (his mom messed it up then) and didn't know anything was backed up to iTunes. He lost a lot of stuff that time. I'm just trying to get his phone back to par after someone changed his passcode on him as a joke and forgot what they changed it to a few days ago. They should change it so one could go in and pick what they want or don't want. Thank you again for your time. I do appreciate it.

Is there a a way to get photos from your iPod back onto your computer?

My sister's computer crashed, and she lost all her photos. Her pictures are on her iPod, but I can't find a way to get them onto another computer. I searched posts looking for programs that could help, but they all cost money. Does anyone know of free programs that can help me????

There aren't any free ones that I know of, but if you copied photos to your iPod using the full resolution option, enable disk use, open your iPod in "my computer" in Windows or Finder on a Mac, open the photos folder then open the "full resolution" folder and drag the photos out of that folder to your desktop. For enabling disk use look here.
Disk Use.
If you only copied the photos as thumbnails, you can't do this so you'll need a program such as this one.
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iPod Photo Liberator. (both Mac and Windows versions available)
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