Why didn't my backup restore do anything?
I did a full backup of my iPhone around a month ago and I restore the backup now through iTunes and it seems like it didn't restore anything. All my contacts are still gone, that was really the purpose of why I backed up my phone.
Most likely iTunes updated the backup when you connected the iPhone, and then restored the backup with the missing data instead of what you wanted.
Note that iOS uses a rolling backup scheme. There is normally only one backup, the current one. To make a snapshot that you could restore at a later date, backup and then immediately restore the backup. The restored backup becomes archived with the date it was restored and a new rolling backup set is generated. It is a good idea to do this every few months so that in the event of a disaster not too much data is lost.
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@?/rdbms/admin/utlirp.sql
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No
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Invocable com.tangosol.examples.snapshot.CacheBackupInvocable starting...
Source size: 0
Target size after copy: 0
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2007-08-28 16:08:41.213 Oracle Coherence GE 3.3/387 <Error> (thread=Invocation:InvocationService, member=2): Invocation request threw an exception at Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2007-08-28 16:04:59.822, Address=10.30.24.51:8088, MachineId=3123, Location=process:5196@EQDW30081)
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at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.resolveClass(Unknown Source)
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at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
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Hello experts
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STARTUP NOMOUNT
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MAXINSTANCES 50
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LOGFILE
GROUP 1 (
'/oracle/ZD1/origlogA/log_g11m1.dbf',
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CHARACTER SET UTF8
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'/oracle/ZD1/sapdata4/sr3_61/sr3.data61',
'/oracle/ZD1/sapdata4/sr3_62/sr3.data62'
CHARACTER SET UTF8
ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESTLOGS;
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Thank youHello Nicholas
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./NW04S/LM/AS-JAVA/ADDIN/ORA/CENTRAL/DB/keydb.xml
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./ERP/LM/USR/log_15_Dec_2011_15_43_02/keydb.xml
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./ERP/LM/PRC/keydb.xml
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./ERP/LM/COPY/ORA/SYSTEM/CENTRAL/AS/log_19_Dec_2011_08_48_00/keydb.xml
./ERP/SYSTEM/ORA/CENTRAL/AS/keydb.xml
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./ERP/SYSTEM/ORA/CENTRAL/AS/log_16_Dec_2011_13_03_45/keydb.xml
./ERP/SYSTEM/ORA/CENTRAL/AS/log_18_Dec_2011_08_05_17/keydb.xml
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<strval><![CDATA[]]>
</strval>
</fld>
</row>
<row>
<fld name="STEPKEY">
<strval><![CDATA[|NW_Doublestack_OneHost|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_Onehost_System|ind|ind|ind|ind|2|0|NW_CreateDBandLoad|ind|ind|ind|ind|10|0|NW_CreateDB|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_OraDBCheck|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_OraDBMain|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_OraDBOBR|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_OraOBR|ind|ind|ind|ind|4|0|RunControlScript]]>
</strval>
</fld>
<fld name="STATUS">
<strval><![CDATA[ERROR]]>
</strval>
</fld>
<fld name="STOP_BEFORE">
<strval><![CDATA[]]>
</strval>
</fld>
<fld name="STOP_AFTER">
<strval><![CDATA[]]>
</strval>
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WickG0ld98 wrote:
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Current phone 4S with service from one provider. Also have a new SIM with another provider, and want to copy my contacts from the 4S across to my old 3GS which I will be using for a bit as an alternative. Definitely do not want anything except the contacts copied across so a full backup/restore is NOT what I'm after, and I can't see (in the iTunes backup) how to only do the contacts.
Sorry, my bungle - from what devices I am used to - these Apple things still have me confused at times.
The core requirement is the same - to get the contacts from the 4S onto the 3GS without backing up the whole device/apps etc.
And a second part of that is how to get the contacts onto a SIM for a device that DOES store them there. No doubt that will be a problem as it only has name/number combos, not all the fruit the iPhone keeps under a contact. Maybe it can't done. A simple export to CSV or something that could be edited would suffcie if there were an import tool to get it onto the SIM in the simpler format.
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