Is there a good way to verify an iPhone backup?

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I'm pretty current (perhaps a version point or two behind), but more than once I've done a backup, only to then later do a restore or update and being told the backup failed. Even if I tried to restore immediately after, as a test, I might be told it failed. Not why, just that it didn't. If I do it simultaneously with an upgrade, I risk basically wiping everything, as I recently did when moving to 9.x. I had to then buy a program that can fish through the backup info on my computer, and it recovered a lot, but it's a huge PITA and, as a consumer software developer for a long time, I can say it's unacceptable. Why can't they have a "backup analysis" that we can run that shows it actually succeeded, instead of waiting for a critical time only to find out it didn't work?

On edit, I just backed it up before moving to 9.2, and got this error:



So can I not move to 9.2? How the hell do I fix this?

It's a iPhone 5, but there's no reason the backup should fail, especially if it says it succeeded in iTunes. Is there a log file somewhere?

[fcorbitt]

1. itunes extractor

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There are free apps that can extract files from itunes backup, you can have a try on that.

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2. Well, I have that, or something like that

but it requires me to extract and rebuild (which I can do and have done, but it's a PITA and takes hours). I was hoping for something that could validate a backup. Apple doesn't validate backups until it attemps to use them (which may be too late). What's the point?

[RedPugg]

3. upgrade itunes

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upgrade itunes to the latest version. Or you can use third party software to extract data from backup. It depends on you.

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4. That's the least safest time to do it

at that point it best have worked or you're screwed.

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[PailteryMan]

6. How to get lost data from backup

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There is no doubt that you can get lost iPhone data from backup , it is so easy , for how to backup phone data , you just need to copy the data to from your iPhone to computer or sync them to bacpkup , when you backup files has been created , you can regain deleted data on backup as long as you have synced them to backup files , so easy

[samnsara]

7. welcome!

[Dashhyt]

5. recover

iPhone Data recovery become very easy .If you have make the back up ,you can get data back from backup files . You can use Coolmuster iPhone Backup Extractor to recover deleted data from iPhone .

[parjas]

8. you can locate a specific backup and verify that it's been backed up

you can locate a specific backup:
Open iTunes. Click iTunes in the menu bar, then choose Preferences.
Click Devices.
Control-click the backup that you want, then choose Show in Finder. https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT204215

[Komasdfer]

9. How to extract data from iPhone backup files

To extract data from iPhone backup files can be very easy if you get a backup data extract tool

[Vamksery]

10. Extract data from iPhone backup files

From iPhone backup to recover deleted data can be easy way .you just need to enter into your backup files and select these data that you want to recover , then extract iPhone data ,