Is iCloud a full backup tool?

I'm a bit confused. Is iCloud now a full backup tool? And if so, are backed up files accessible from both OS X an iOS devices? I'm especially interested with respect to MS Office files.

iCloud does not provide general file storage or backup in the manned of the late lamented MobileMe iDisk. If you want an online backup you will need to find a third-party alternative - this page examines some options:
http://rfwilmut.net/missing3

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Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? How do I get my data back -- off the iCloud?

Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? ---- Apple care suggested using iCloud for a backup to my documents. I do not have an iphone, ipad or laptop. Just an iMac. Nothing to share the data with.
Now I am unable to access some of my documents on my computer and saving documents is cumbersome because it always wants to save it in iCloud, not my computer. The documents I am unable to open are my old MS-Word. One is a macro enabled word doc. I am using os x mountain lion.
After over an hour chat with apple care, the issue is not resolved. I did not have more time to resolve the issue today and it will be continued next week. Per apple care, I do not have any documents in the iCloud however I am almost at the free capacity with contacts and documents.
My question is -- If I purchase backup from a clould provider - other than apple, back up my files in documents in their cloud (make sure I can open them) and then delete the link to iCloud. Would I preserve my data? Has anyone tried this? I am open to suggestions.
Thanks,
Phyllis

Is the iCloud a backup tool for your computer? ---- Apple care suggested using iCloud for a backup to my documents.
Not really. You can store "Documents in the Cloud" but this applies only to documents created by Pages, Numbers, Preview, Keynote, and Microsoft Office documents created on your computer stored in iCloud's "iWork". Within that limited purpose, iCloud works very well.
My question is -- If I purchase backup from a clould provider - other than apple, back up my files in documents in their cloud (make sure I can open them) and then delete the link to iCloud. Would I preserve my data?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "purchase backup from a cloud provider" but if you're considering a service such as Carbonite, I don't advocate any of them. To back up your Mac, use your own backup device - Time Capsule or an external hard disk. It's inexpensive and reliable: two elements essential for a backup strategy, that no subscription service can offer.

Touch screen stopped working. Is there anyway to force a full backup of the iPhone without typing in my passcode lock or is there anyway to force it to connect to a WiFi network so the phone can backup to iCloud??

Hello all, I could use some help with my iPhone 4, I hope this is the best place to ask!
The Problem:
I want to do a full backup of my iphone to either itunes or to icloud. Unfortunately the iphone got wet and isn’t working properly. The phone turns on and still works, but the touch screen no longer works. I have a passcode lock on the phone so iTunes will not allow me to backup it up until I type in the passcode (which I cannot physically do). WiFi had been turned off before it got wet so it won’t connect to any known WiFi networks either to backup automatically to iCloud.
What happened:
I had been travelling for 6 months and went tubing on a river with my iphone in a dry bag. Unfortunately the dry bag failed and filled with water ruining my iphone.
What I’d like to do:
It’s an old phone and I was planning on buying a new iPhone anyway. I would love to do a full backup to either iCloud or to my computer so when I get a new iPhone I don’t lose anything. I’ve already connected it to my PC and downloaded all the photos and videos off the phone so at least I haven’t lost that, but I would like to be able to recover all the text messages, WhatsApp messages and notes I had created during my 6 months of travel.
The last time it was backed up to my pc or to icloud was in April, so there are 6 months worth of very meaningful data I would love to keep to remind me of my travels!
Is there anyway to force a full backup of the iPhone without typing in my passcode lock or is there anyway to force it to connect to a WiFi network so the phone can backup to iCloud??
iTunes recognizes the phone just now and I tried upgrading the phone to iOS7 in the hopes that it would first backup and then upgrade. Unfortunately all that happened is the phone upgraded to iOS7, but it didn’t backup to iTunes. Now the phone is stuck at the iOS7 welcome screen and I can’t do anything else with it.
Any ideas or tips would be welcome!
NOTE: This is NOT a jailbroken iPhone.

If there is no other way around this, is there anyway to completely wipe the phone then??
The Apple store agreed to give me a new iPhone 4 as a warranty replacement for $150 (I travel a lot and I have a factory unlocked phone, so this is still worth it for me). But before I trade it in, I would like to make sure all my data is backed up on the device first.
When I try and restore the phone now on iTunes, it says I have to turn off Find My iPhone on the phone first before I can restore it. Now since I can't use the screen I can't really do that.
So how do I completely wipe the iPhone???
Thanks!

ICloud storage full on iphone, but deleted almost everything and grows larger! iPad is fine with same iCloud acct. can I delete iPhone backup then turn it back on without loosing iCloud data?

Icloud storage full. Can I delete my iPhone icloud backup with keeping my iCloud data unharmed (since my iPad has iCloud storage turned on, and I wouldn't be turning iCloud off on my iPad). BTW, I use iTunes for music and photo albums; iCloud for contacts, notes, etc. Then turn iCloud back up back on on iphone to see if I had a problem file and the storage changes?
ICloud storage full. I deleted messages, moved the camera roll to my PC, deleted Safari bookmarks, turned off almost every app in Managing iCloud storage. I turned off the backup, restarted iCloud backup and did a manual backup yet my storage gets larger yet.
Makes no sense. I have a iPhone and iPad. It's the iPhone showing this large iCloud storage 3.6 GB (when the iPad has more apps and only 716MB).

ANSWER to my Question above: YES.
I took a chance, as I could find NO information regarding my question, and DELETED MY ICLOUD BACKUP (not my ICLOUD account). I then turned ON my ICLOUD BACKUP and whew! It plummeted from 4.8 GB full out of 5 GB TO: 1.2 GB full out of 5 GB.
I even turned on more settings to back up and it still shows 1.2 GB full in ICLOUD, 3.8 available. No more emails to say I am running out of ICLOUD space.
[For what its worth if others are getting messages their ICLOUD is almost full, and you don't have all that much on ICLOUD. Then when you even delete apps, messages, camera roll, turn off almost ALL icloud back ups and features the ICLOUD backup grows even larger. My ICLOUD kept increasing in size while I was decreasing my ICLOUD storage in Managing storage.]
(All my ICLOUD contacts, notes, Safari bookmarks, were returned in place.)

Ultimate Backup Tool v2.0 (Beta) - Full backup without root and unlock

Easy to use tool and useful, for instance before unlocking bootloader which causes a factory reset.
All credits go to GIGADROID and team, off course:
[TOOL][Multi-Platform] Ultimate Backup Tool v2.0 (Beta) - Full backup without root - xda-developers

jay2727 wrote:
DO you know if this will work with my S2109 (which is obviously locked completely down)?
I don't know the S2109.
Just try and see...

Full Backup Operation not working

Hi,
     Iu2019m using MAXDB 7.8 and using Dataprotector tool to take full backup. Data Protector toool uses the below commands to take full backup.. but it is giving ERROR saying that
Error: ERR
-24920,ERR_BACKUPOP: backup operation was unsuccessful
The backup tool failed with 2 as sum of exit codes. The database request was canceled and ended with error -903.
qapaux26# dbmcli -d tvs -u dbm,dbm
dbmcli on tvs>user_logon dbm,dbm
OK
dbmcli on tvs>dbm_configset -raw BSI_ENV /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.bsi_env
OK
dbmcli on tvs>medium_put BACKDP-Data[1]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK
OK
dbmcli on tvs>util_connect
OK
dbmcli on tvs>backup_start BACKDP-Data[1] DATA
ERR
-24920,ERR_BACKUPOP: backup operation was unsuccessful
The backup tool failed with 2 as sum of exit codes. The database request was canceled and ended with error -903.
Help is much appreciatedu2026could you please help me out if anybody has idea on this..
The same command commands works for MAXDB 7.7 but not for MAXDB 7.8
Regards,
Ranganath

Hi Markus Doehr,
Thanks for your information. is it may be Data Protector Configuration issue?
dbmcli on tvs>dbm_configget all
OK
BSI_ENV             = /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.bsi_env
set_variable_10     = OB2BACKUPAPPNAME=TVS
set_variable_11     = OB2BACKUPHOSTNAME=qapaux26.ind.hp.com
set_variable_12     = OB2OPTS=(null)
I'm new to this work and I'm learning the concepts of maxdb as well as DataProtector and trying to fix this issue. Asper your replay i came to know that DP doesn't create the medium appropriately.. can you just let me know more on this?
if possible just tell me with example how to create medium appropriately?
I'm resending KnlMsg
                        0xc000016740669928, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 6152)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Savepoint      1: Savepoint (SaveData) started by T269
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20003: SVP(1) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20004: SVP(1) Stop Data IO, Pages: 6 IO: 6
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20005: SVP(2) Wait for last synchronizing task: 284
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20006: SVP(2) Stop Wait for last synchronizing task, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     DataCache      4: Mark data pages for savepoint (prepare phase)
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20007: SVP(3) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20008: SVP(3) Stop Data IO, Pages: 2 IO: 2
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20009: SVP(3) Start Write Converter
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Pager      20011: SVP(3) Stop Converter IO, Pages: 8 IO: 8
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:32:03     DataCache      3: Savepoint with ID 10 completed
Thread       0x1F Task    268 2010-12-07 12:32:03     CONNECT    12633: Connect req. (TVS, T268, connection obj. 0xc00001674089dd38, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 6152)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     Log        20083: New DBIdentifier set (qapaux26:TVS_20101207_123203)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     RTEIO        112: Open of medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/data_000 as number 3 for READ successfull
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:32:03     RTEIO        112: Open of medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/arch_000 as number 4 for READ successfull
Thread       0x1F Task    268 2010-12-07 12:32:04     CONNECT    12651: Connection released (TVS, T268, connection obj. c00001674089dd38)
Thread       0x1B Task    300 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR RTEIO        113: medium /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 cannot be opened for WRITE access,_FILE=RTEIO_St
reamMedium.cpp,_LINE=1261
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR RTEIO         65: open of medium /var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1 was canceled,_FILE=RTEIO_StreamMedium.cp
p,_LINE=4804
Thread       0x1B Task    299 2010-12-07 12:33:08 WNG SAVE       52108: canceled by user
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08     RTEIO        114: medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/data_000 with number 3 was closed
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08     RTEIO        114: medium /sapdb/TATA/data/wrk/TVS/arch_000 with number 4 was closed
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR SAVE       52012: error occured, basis_err 3700
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR Backup         3: Data backup failed,_FILE=Kernel_Administration.cpp,_LINE=1560
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      17: Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      10: Job 1 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT269 Result=3700
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     Backup         1: Backupmedium #1 (/var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1) Could not open stream
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Backup error occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:08 ERR Backup         3: Data backup failed,_FILE=Kernel_Administration.cpp,_LINE=1560
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      17: Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     SrvTasks      10: Job 1 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT269 Result=3700
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     Backup         1: Backupmedium #1 (/var/opt/omni/tmp/TVS.BACKDP-Data[1].1) Could not open stream
                               2010-12-07 12:33:08     KernelComm     6: Backup error occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:33:10     CONNECT    12651: Connection released (TVS, T269, connection obj. c000016740669928)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:47:18     CONNECT    12633: Connect req. (TVS, T269, connection obj. 0xc00001674089dd38, Node:'qapaux26', PID: 5802)
Thread       0x1F Task    269 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Savepoint      1: Savepoint (SaveData) started by T269
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20003: SVP(1) Start Write Data
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20004: SVP(1) Stop Data IO, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20005: SVP(2) Wait for last synchronizing task: 284
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20006: SVP(2) Stop Wait for last synchronizing task, Pages: 0 IO: 0
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     DataCache      4: Mark data pages for savepoint (prepare phase)
Thread       0x1B Task    284 2010-12-07 12:47:34     Pager      20007: SVP(3) Start Write Data
I'm waiting for your replay.....
Ranganath

How to create a new full backup alongside existing one?

I have recently reinstalled my MBP from scratch and installed some apps from scratch as well. I still have my old TM backup in a sparsebundle on my NAS (a ReadyNAS NV+).
I now would like to create a complete new full backup alongside my existing one. Or put differently, a new folder/backup inside the Backups.backupdb inside the mounted sparsebundle. Currently I see a folder called "XYZs MacBook Pro". I'd like that to be renamed to something like "XYZs Old MacBook Pro" and create a new full backup under "XYZs MacBook Pro".
I understand you end up having multiple folders inside Backups.backupdb if you have many Macs (with different MAC addresses). I only have one Mac, but want TM to treat my old previous backup (of the same MPB, hence with the same MAC address) as if it was from another Mac (with a different name).
With such a setup, I can still access backups from my previous installation of the same hardware by selecting another volume from TM (by holding Alt when clikcing at the TM icon) or with tools such as Back-In-Time.
Is there any way to achieve this? My sparsebundle is large enough to hold another full backup alongside the old one.
Thanks
- Tom

Pondini wrote:
tofe1965 wrote:
But wait, you said if I erased the disk I get a new UUID. I did not erase it but I moved all files into a /Previous folder (after booting from the install DVD), then installed the system new, and then moved user data (and some Library and some application stuff) back from /Previous. So, I guess, I have no new UUID for my internal disk.
Ah, yes, that is different ("reinstalled from scratch" usually means erased). If the disk was never erased, it will still have the same UUID. But since you've moved or replaced virtually everything, it will all get backed up anyway.
I'm not sure why you did all that; the old +Erase and Install+ and +Archive and Install+ options no longer exist for Snow Leopard: there's just Install, which replaces OSX without touching anything else.
I wanted to have a *really clean* install as my old systems seemed to be messed up with some bad settings.
So, back to my original question: how can I make the new "XYZs MacBook Pro" appear alongside the old "XYZs MacBook Pro" and switch volumes when I start TM using the Option key?
Why would you want to do that? You can view and restore from any backup.
I figured that way I can keep all old backups from the old installation and not have TM retire old stuff. And start a new one from scratch for the new installation where things will get retired. Basically keep the two backups apart from each other and not see any of the old stuff unless explicitly mounted using the option key.
If I follow your approach, what happens to old files of the old disk/UUID? Will they get retired eventually? Would my original idea work as envisioned or would it retire old things nevertheless? If the latter is the case, it is of no use and your suggested approach is the better one.
Is there maybe a ay to force TM to start a new full backup?
Back up to a different place: a different HD or partition, or erase the current one.
Guess that's my only option then. I created a full bootable backup to en external USB disk using Carbon Copy Cloner. Erasing the internal disk and copying back using CCC will create a new UUID then I guess ...
I will try that in the next couple of days and report back here. Thanks a lot for all your help and explanations so far, much appreciated!

Can I create a full backup on google drive by moving my user folders to Google Drive Folder?

Can I create a full backup on google drive? Google suggested I simply move my folders (Pictures, Music, Downloads, Documents, etc) into the google drive folder. But these seem to be automated files involved with Mac's organization... will this create problems for my computer? Ie. if I import new photos, or download music, will my computer know where to put it if its in google drive?
If this is a problem, how else could I possibly create a full backup of personal data on google drive (or any similar syncing service, for that matter). iCloud is prohibitively expensive, and programs like crash plan and carbonate run so slowly and bog down my computer so much that they are not worth it. Google drive seems simplest and most competitive in price, but I am worried about moving my folders.
Help?

Google Drive also installs a client--a google drive folder on my hard drive that is programmed to sync changes automatically to the cloud--that allows me to drag and drop. I suppose my original concern was about dragging files from my hard drive (such as "pictures" that would contain my iPhoto library, etc) into it. Would that mess up Mac's internal organizational system? If I drag and drop my pictures folder, music folder, etc. into the google drive client folder in Finder, will those applications still function correctly? Will my mac still be able to figure out where to put photos I import from my camera, etc?
I am only as tech savvy as I have to be to survive professionally as a traveling teacher, so I am looking for something pretty straightforward that will free up some of my brain waves for other activities, rather than remembering which folders I have made changes in and need to sync.

How can I do a FULL Backup to Oracle 8i Database?

Hi,
We are using a product that uses Oracle 8i and we are trying to perform a FULL Backup to the database. I am not an oracle person and not sure how to do this.
Please also inform me on how to perform a FULL Restor for the backed up database. I would really appreaciate it.
null

Before I can amply reply to your post, I need to know what tools you have.
What is your O.S.?
What do you want to backup to? (Tape Drive/Hard Disk)
What time frame requirements do you have?
Are you running in Archive Log Mode? <-- (in case you do not know, log in with svrmgrl, connect internal, run ARCHIVE LOG LIST; and tell me what is reported on the top line of output.)
Do you have requirements that the database must be Online at all times?
Are you using 3rd party Backup Software, if so, which one(s)?
I know these are a lot of questions, but it helps me help you. :)
Rgds,
Mark Brown
SAP Japan

WARNING: Full Backup option is NOT a full backup (you lose your older voicemails)

Just a warning out there for anyone upgrading phones or otherwise restoring from a back up. iTunes gives the option for either iCloud backup, which will "back up the most important data on your iPhone to iCloud", OR Computer Backup in which "a full backup of your iPhone will be stored on this computer".
A downside of the computer backup is that you have to plug in via wire. It is not a wireless option for backup. Frankly, that's not any bother. My phone sits each night at my desk anyhow to charge.
Another downside, however, that I discoverd today is that it is NOT A FULL BACKUP. It does not back up voicemail. Whether there is anything else it doesn't back up, I don't know. But it doesn't back up voicemails. How do I know? When I restored, I lost every voice mail older than 30 days (I'm an ATT&T user). That sweet message my 4-year-old left me. Gone. That client I needed to get back to even thought it's been a while. Gone.
I can't tell you how frustrating this is. Doesn't make it better when Apple tried to start blaming AT&T.
The Apple engineers have screwed this one up. Either allow the option for autobackups during a wired sync AND allow iCloud backup (rather than requiring you to select either or).. OR include visual voicemail backup as part of the full back up to the computer. In other words, make sure that "full back up" means "full". And if you can't do either of those, then don't use the word "full" when it's not a full back up. Include the caveat that you might lost voice mail if you don't do an iCloud back up.
Apple: fix this.
Consumers: Avoid this situation. Before switching phones, do the iCloud sync, then do a manual backup. That would have avoided this situation of losing voicemails. Now I know. Too late for me -- but hopefully not for you.

Apple blaming AT&T (as told to you by AT&T), and you believe AT&T that it's Apple's fault? Voice Mail is a service provided by your provider. Apple is not the provider - AT&T is. In the AT&T User Guide, they tell you how to permanently save your voicemails. They also say this:
4. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO RETRIEVE MESSAGES.
AT&T assumes no responsibility for
the deletion or failure to store or retrieve Voice Mail messages.
As described in Your Guide, your Service will retain only a
limited number of messages and will store messages only
for a limited number of days. AT&T retains the right, at AT&T’s
sole discretion and at any time, to change any
of the capacity limits on message exchange and st
orage. Accordingly, timely retrieval of
messages is your
responsibility.
FYI, here is a link to the AT&T Voice Mail User Guide:
https://www.vm.att.com/dchelp/EN/att_vm_user_guide.pdf
Apple is not to blame here - it is not Apple's job to keep your Voice Mails - it is AT&T's job. iTunes doesn't back up Voice Mail at all as indicated here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
It backs up the Voice Mail password, but not the actual Voice Mail. If you only have 30 days - talk to AT&T....
Sorry you lost your 3-year old's message. That is really sad..... Just wanted you to know where the problem actually lies.
Cheers,
GB

Best software for doing full backups to ext. hard disk to to be used to restore system

As a new PC owner I wanted to find out what the best software for doing full backups to external hard disk, to to be used to restore the system if primary primary disk crashes. Im aware that Windows, Acronis and Paragon all have software that doing varying degress of back and resore functions.

lasvideo,
My favorites are ShadowProtect to do an "image backup" of boot drive and Beyond Compare for backing up files for all other "data" arrays. ShadowProtect does not seem to have much market share compared with Ghost and Acronis, but I really love it.
What I like about ShadowProtect:
- Extremely fast (complete image backup for 61GB of files on my boot SSD RAID 0 array to a RAID data array takes less than 3 minutes)
- Can do image backups across a LAN; restores from boot CDROM and USB device
- Allows for backups from one controller and restore of OS on a different controller and/or RAID configuration (has HAL tools; Hardware ? Layer I think)
- Can "mount" an image backup as a drive letter and see (and copy) all directories, files, etc. that are contained in the archive
What I like about Beyond Compare:
- Can choose what to backup and what to ignore very easily (for example you can set it to ignore certain files or directory names to ignore and then save how you set things up as a "session")
- Only needs to copy over files that are new or have changed since your last backup
- Makes it very easy to selectively delete files from your backup
Regards,
Jim

ICloud storage and backup question

According to the most answers that I have been searched here in iCloud ,I found out that iCloud didn't back up all the photos on my photos stream (which I couldnt restore them later -_-") but pictures will be keep in iCloud photos stream just for only 30days Then will be deleted forever. As I experienced updating iOS recently,my phone was cracked during upgrading and I have to restore everything in my iPhone as a default factory setting. once I backup my photos from iCloud,I got only photos that I clicked back-up manually since 2012 :"( and all my new photos were not appeared forever. In this case,that iCloud didn't keep those photos,why my iCloud storage is showing full?? Any idea...pls advice..

Your iCloud backup only includes photos (and videos) in your camera roll. It doesn't included any photo stream photos. You are correct that photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days. If you have photo stream photos that are not in your camera roll that you want included in your iCloud backup, you have to save them to your camera roll before performing the backup.
Zushee wrote:
As I experienced updating iOS recently,my phone was cracked during upgrading and I have to restore everything in my iPhone as a default factory setting. once I backup my photos from iCloud,I got only photos that I clicked back-up manually since 2012 :"( and all my new photos were not appeared forever. In this case,that iCloud didn't keep those photos,why my iCloud storage is showing full?? Any idea...pls advice..
Sorry but I don't understand what you're asking here. If your question is why is your iCloud storage full, you can find out by going to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage to find out what is using your iCloud space.

Icloud storage full - manage storage

Hi,
So my ipad is saying that my icloud storage is almost full and it is preventing me from doing a lot of things.
I go to settings > icloud > storage and backup > manage storage
It says my ipad is using 63.2MB and Mail is using 113.8MB - this obviously does not add up to 5GB, yet my storage is saying I have used 4.8GB of 5GB on icloud.
I have tried deleting the back ups and even turning off back up to icloud. Then I turned the icloud back up on again and did a fresh back up and the result was still 4.8GB of usage wit the above statistics for ipad and Mail.
I am so confused. I am obviously not using 5GB of storage and don't want to purchase anymore, does anyone have any ideas of what is wrong!?
Thanks,
S

iCloud: Backup and restore overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859
Check iCloud storage & backup space on iPad
http://www.urltips.net/check-icloud-storage-backup-space-on-ipad/336/
iCloud: Troubleshooting creating backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3992
 Cheers, Tom

Full backup or Incremental backup????

We have Oracle 9.2.0.5
We have a Database in a Datawarehouse system.
We make full backup on saturday, it take 2 or 3 hoursâ¦ but we need to do a backup daily because we have a transactional system to modificate some data and we have a repository of the reporting tool too..
We can make a night backup but we need to do a fast backupâ¦
Our System Administrator said me itâs not convenient to do a incremental backup and He suggest a full backupâ¦ Itâs correct? Whatâs your recommendations????
Thanks!

I think full backup is fine but here you have some redundant information. If you choose incremental backup then it will be faster and save redundant information.

Took full backup before factory reset, but restore hasn't given much back

Hi,
Due to having trouble (suspected software) with my home button, I got a full reset at the genius bar.
Because I knew that was likely, I took a full backup on my PC via iTunes. iTunes said that doing so would take a complete copy of my iPad.
On bringing my iPad back from the shop, I restored from the backup, but I now only have a handful of apps and little if any of the content.
I had essential stuff also backed up via iCloud, so this isn't a disaster, but I'm rather surprised that a "complete" backup would actually only entail about 5% of what was on there, and I'm wondering whether I've missed something as I suspect the weak link here may be me.
Any bright ideas?
Many thanks.
Tom.

Is this how you did the restore?
Restore from iTune Backup
1. Settings>General>Reset>Erase all content and settings
2. You'll be asked twice to confirm
3. You'll see Apple logo and progress bar
4. You'll see a big iPad logo on screen
5. Configuration start
6. Set language
7. Set country
8. Select Network and input Password>Join
9. Enable Location Service>Next
10. You'll be given 3 options (a) Setup as New iPad (b) Restore from iCloud Backup (c) Restore from iTune Backup
11. Select Restore from iTune Backup
12. You will see picture of USB cable pointing towards iPad
13. Connect iPad to iTune (make sure iTune is on standby)
14. Tap Continue (computer)
15. Restore iPad from Backup (computer)
16. See progress bar with estimated time (computer)
17. See Restore in Progress on iPad
18. See Apple logo
19. See Apple and Progress Bar
20. Slide to Unlock
21. Copying Apps back to iPad (computer)
22. You'll see Loading/Installing/Waiting below the Apps (iPad)
23. Sync Music/Podcast/Movies to iPad (computer)
24. Sync completed (computer)

Is iCloud a full backup tool?

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