IPhone4 - Possible Sync/Backup Solution at last...

Since upgrading to iTunes 10.7 I've been unable to sync/backup my iPhone 4 via either USB or WiFi.
I've had ALL the different messages over the months - "Can't start a session", can't sync, can't backup, etc.
I've followed all the advice from the forums - I've reinstalled iTunes, I've shut restarted the AppleMobileDeviceHelper services, I've restored my iPhone from backup, I've Reset Network Connections, I've deleted my backups on my PC and sync history in iTunes, but NOTHING works. (Sometimes it solves the problem for a short time, but then it returns).
iTunes 11 hasn't fixed the problem, but I THINK I've found a temporary solution - I can finally get my phone to sync again via USB if I turn WiFi *OFF* first.
(Ridiculous, but is it possible the sync/backup software sees the USB as a power source and tries syncing by USB & WiFi at the same time?)
Hope this helps someone else in the same position...
CR

Mine has been backing up for 3 hours now. I stopped it after about an hour the first time, thinking something was wrong. This is ridiculous. I have never had a backup/upgrade take this long. I also find it somewhat odd that no one has replied to this post with similar problems. Are we the only 2, out of millions, that are having this problem?

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My system generally looks like this:-
/home/data has the majority of my 'work', its a separate partition (by far the largest).
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Previously I would simply backup /home/data using rsync and tar up /home to a single 20+GB file. The reason for that backup configuration was basically that my external hard disc was NTFS.
Today I decided to reformat the external hard disc, will be splitting its space between NTFS and ext3. So I have the following plan:-
rsync for /home/data to the NTFS partition, since some data there would sometimes be used by Windows systems.
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ngoone,
I feel that the most useful backup strategy involves historic backups rotated over several periods of time. My linux experience at this point does not allow me to provide you with the tools to do such. But here's what I have learned way back in the early 90s when I was a junior maintaining an IBM ES9000 and a VAX/VMS in Alcatel, and adapted to what I believe could be your requirements (I've been using similar strategies on my own systems ever since):
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1. Keep a daily sync backup of what you want to manage
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Weekly backups:
1. Keep a weekly sync backup from the last daily backup that week
2. Rotate the weekly backups over a period of 1 month
Usually the need to restore happens across small time spans (e.g. you need the backup from yesterday because you messed up with some files). However you are also guaranteed sync access to a full weekly backup in daily intervals and a full monthly backup in weekly intervals, in case things did get hectic.
You'll also note I don't take diff backups in a high regard But for completeness, you may want to maintain an history backup on top of that (a diff monthly backup that you do at the end of each month).
Of course you can adjust all this to your needs (personally I usually like to span daily backups over a larger period of time while still maintaining weekly backups). Maybe you will want to ignore the brunt of all this. But, as far as my humble opinion goes, no backup strategy is sound without you taking an historic approach to it. For even better security, include ewaller advise above into all this.
Note:
This is a disk hog. But for all the better reasons. Personally, I'd rather have a dedicated disk or partition for my backup needs.
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My laptop hard disc is going to be backed up to two external hard discs (regular script). What I do right now is run two separate rsync commands, but of course this means that the data (all 300+ GB of it, currently) needs to be read twice. Seems it'd be much more efficient if the data were read once and then written to both external hard discs.
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Last edited by ngoonee (2013-10-31 01:33:22)

cfr wrote:
Doesn't this partially undermine the point of doing two backups? I realise one is off site and that they are on separate devices which rules out some sources of corruption/loss but if you run the backup as you wish and something bad happens to the source during the backup, you are likely to end up with three corrupted copies rather than only two.
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