Backup & Restore iPhone External Drive (Part 1&2)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This is a revised complete part 1 & 2 of the original video we have on backing up your iPhone to an external drive. Here we cover the back up and restore of an iPhone A-Z. We are running macOS Big Sur and iOS 13.
NOTE: If you are looking for the restore process only it starts here • Backup & Restore iPhon... (at 8:42)
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Apple has the simplest software yet its a nightmare to do simple stuff like this, the ultimate love/hate relationship !
Apply make it hard so they can sell iCloud more.... :-(
Followed instructions was finally able to create a backup.. someone should write a script to make this happen.. Thanks for making the video.
First person I’ve read/watched who has steps that actually work! None other were this concise. Thank you for this 🙏
I wish everyone know how to explain things properly like you. Thank you
What worked for me was mounting the external drive at /Users//Library/Application Support/MobileSync, so it replaces the actual backup folder when it is connected. You can make this happen every time you connect the drive using Automator.
We need this step in the video… I’m getting the error saying not enough space while my external drive has plenty avail space
please elaborate
I tried so many other videos and none worked except for your video, thank you so much!
While the backup works and seeing that it’s going to my external hard drive. How come it keeps failing on me saying that I don’t have enough space on Mac. Even though it’s all going to hard drive?
i have the same problem! the connection with the symbolic link to the external hard drive is made, but when i back up it still says my mac does not have enough storage :( ??? i thought the point was that we didn't need to rely on the storage of the mac to backup/restore :(
@@starflakestudies6787 yes, this not work forme
After 1 year from your comment l am having the same problem… DID YOU FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE..
@@tooinchi After 1 year from your comment l am having the same problem… DID YOU FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE..
“Could not back up the iPhone” cause not enough space on Mac... ???
After 1 year from your comment l am having the same problem… DID YOU FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE..
So many tutorials claiming this - only one that actually does. THANK YOU.
With latest BigSur you could just right click on your backup --> show in finder --> Copy the backup --> Paste in the external HDD
I just completed the coding on my imac. It was Explained well, making the process easy. It works great. Thanks so much.
PLEASE HELP!! :(
everything is working fine until i'm doing that ln -s command and it gave me this prompt " illegal option"
what to do?
Yours was the only easily found source with explicit instructions on how to do this. Even then, I had to look up some things I was not familiar with, such as what "Terminal" is. Could not have achieved this any other way. I guess Apple does not want to add this functionality to their computers, they want to sell ICloud storage.
It's 2021 and we're still using terminal commands?
Thank u for sharing ... i have mac pro catalina every thing goes fine with me but there is no backup in "Manage Backups" after i backed up my iphone successfully
Great Guy, a question if possible: the backup is made on my external HD but in the iPhone screen it's not displayed; I get "last backup on Mac: never". How can i do to fix this problem? Thanks
Do I need to encrypt to put the data to the external hard drive? This is my first time backing up my iPhone to prepare for the arrival of the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Backup was successfully completed and I can see a new folder in the external hardrive for inside my backup folder. But my mac is showing "No Backups found" and the "Restore Backup" option is read only. Need help to figure out how I can restore my backup. Did I miss any steps?
Very clear video, but it doesn't work with me :(
I'm searching for a solution for weeks now but nothing works. I have macOS Big Sur on my Mac and iOS 14.3 on my iPhone. The thing is that I don't have a MobileSync folder in the Application Support folder. And if I add them myself it doesn't work either. Can you please help me?
Thanks a lot, bro!! On iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 15.2 it friggin WORKED!!! And it went straight to the external HDD!! AWESOME!!! 😀👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻
THANKSSSS I need to say you just saved my life!!!
Thank you for the VERY informative AND instructive video! I’m 71 and relatively new to the Macbook, so this is going to help me immensely I'm sure.
Unfortunately I have one hurdle to overscome. I had installed the Mac version of my iMazing program before trying to do the backup from the Mac OS Big Sur. Now I can’t get the Mac OS to do the backup. I’ll try and work that out. Hopefully if I uninstall the iMazing, the Mac OS will see the iphone and then do a backup as you explained.
Question, I thought I saw you had a Synology NAS connected on one of your other videos (I recently purchased and connected one also). I wondered if you made these two iPhone backup videos to an external USB because a USB drive is more common but you actually do your backups to your Synology? If so, is the backup to a Synology drive the same except that you designate the shared folder on the Synology instead of the USB? You explained a symbolic link (new to me) folder so I’ll be doing that also.
One more Please? - I will be using my Macbook to backups my iphone and iPad, my wifes' iphone and iPad, and my adult sons' iPad. How do I designate each of the 5 backups from each other to the Mac so it doesn’t overwrite the others when doing the backups? When I connect each different device to my MacBook, will it know and create or update that particular devices previous backup?
Thank You so Very Very much for helping me work through getting this done right. It’s one of the two main reasons I saved and spent all that money to got the Synology.
Great vid, 1 question though, can i just copy past my backup to the external drive without doing all the main steps and later restore from the external drive, ( im not migrating my current backup to a external drive i just want to move my older back up to clear some space in hard disk ) im worrying about restoring part :(
Thanks for making the video. I tried following the website that came up in a google search and had no luck. The difference is you manually make the directories in terminal. Is this a requirement? And also do you have to make an backup first to local mobile sync or can you create the symlinks and backup first time to an external?
I have an issue/question, I followed all steps and everything seems to have worked fine but when doing the backup, the backup data is heavier than what's on the iPhone. For example, My iPhone has a total of 249Gb used, when backing up to the HardDrive it has already taken 360Gb and it is only halfway done. Why could this be? Any recommendations? Could it be the way the Harddrive is formatted? I use a 1TB Harddrive by WD Elements
Hello, thank you so much for this video. Unfortunately, the Backup folder in MobileSync was not replaced by the old iTunes-backup, rather it just added the old iTunes-backup to the MobileSync folder so I now have both the Backup and old iTunes-backup folders in MobileSync. The shortcut Backup is in MobileSync/Backup...thus the phone is still backing up up to my computer. Can I some how delete all I have done in Terminal and start again. Once again thank you for your excellent informative and helpful videos. Hoping you can reply...Kindest of regards. Dobbindobbin
I Am in the same situation, did you find any solution to delete all what was done in terminal?
Plus can’t I just backup to my computer & then transfer backup to external hard drive?
Thanks man.
You are a lifesaver.
Simple and straight to the point.
You just got a new sub.
Thanks! This is a great video. I really like this.
I want to backup one iphone to my external drive, and backup another one up to my MacBook Pro Catalina. Once I create the link, will the backups go to their respective appropriate locations depending on whether I've plugged my external drive in or left it unplugged? Thanks again!
@TechCoreDuo, thanks for the amazing video. I hope your video reaches others like me who bought the base versions of macs. I hope apple doesn't patch this vulnerability (thats how they force people into buying icloud subscriptions).
Hello thank you so much for the video, I follow steps but when I plug in new iPhone to restore it does now show back and says it’s never been backed up? Any suggestions ?
saved in to my favourite list 👍🏼
I followed all these steps and my phone is still trying to backup to my mac, what should I do?
Hi, can I restore the original folder for the backup? If yes, should I do the procedure in reverse?
Hi, your video is great and easy to follow up.
After typing in the: mkdir /volumes/Backupdrive/iosbackup, it shows me no such file or directory.
What should i do to fix this?
Thanks.
Thanks for this video. I was able to successfully do it but now I got a new external drive. If I move all my data from my old external drive (the one I had the Terminal set up done as you explained) to the new external drive, will I need to do the Terminal coding/logic all over again? Hope you can reply to this...thank you in advance!
I am in kinda same boat. My Ssd crashed so I have formatted it. Wondering will I have to do all the coding again or it’s not needed?. What did you do.
Secondly if I don’t do anything and just backup on my laptop will it happen?
Thanks for the tutorial, i've manage to backup my iphone on my external drive...
but now i can't restore the backup it doesn't appear on the list... what can i do?
Same here, did you find a solution?
@@joelromo3713 same problem…. Any luck?
Is there any specific process to revert back to having it backup to your mac? This was a temporary need for me and it worked very well, but now I have free space on my mac I would like to revert back to normal way of doing this.
only this one tutorial helped!
Thank you soooooo much for the video, it couldn't be better!!! Worked perfectly! Saved my life really!
Thank you sir! One more thing though, can I delete the files(such as photos/videos) on my iphone after the backup? I tried double check on the external drive but all the files are a bit weird, there’s no familiar photo/video format in there.
I actually have the same question on this. It would be great to receive a response this matter :)
Hi bro! Very clear instructions! But I do have a question. Can I do multiple backups with different iPhones with this external hard drive? Should I do and follow the same to create a different folder for a different iPhone backup? Please help. Thanks!
Hi. It backed up successfully to my HDD. But when I connect a new iPhone and click on “Restore” it won’t show any backups on the list. I can see the backup folder on the hdd and is almost 600gb, but the Mac is not seeing it. What can I do?
I followed the steps and backed up my iPhone. And even though the arrow is there confirming the link between the backup folders, my iPhone still backed up onto my MacBook, and not onto my external hard drive. Anyone know why?
l am having the same problem… DID YOU FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE..
I can’t seem to find mobile sync .?
have all the files backed up but when its time to restore my new phone they won't go to it any help
When I tried to link the Backup folder with the other folder on SSD I am getting an error saying Illegal Option in terminal. Please help. Thank you
Thank you, this worked perfectly!
‘Disk not ejected Properly’ Error keeps popping up.
Any Solution?
Thank you. So I am following well. I am able to mv Backup old-itunes-backup
but I get an error when I try to mkdir /Volumes/BackupDrive/iosbackup
it says mkdir: /Volumes/BackupDrive/iosbackup: Permission denied I changed my hard drive name to match yours. same response no matter what I call that drive. How to I gain permission? Thanks for your time.
You have to give Terminal full disk access
@@TechCoreDuo ok I thought I did. It has a check Mark in privacy full disk access and I see terminal
Restarted everything and it must be something with my hard drive. I removed and gave terminal full permission again. Still denied, So odd. Thanks for your time.
Try to run the command with “sudo” in front of it and see what happens
@@TechCoreDuo that did it 😄
what are those terminal key you typed in ? its so blury i cant see it clearly
Is there a way to restore this backup to the phone without iTunes?
While entering the ln command I get a "no such file or directory' error. Please help!
Hello Friend,
Thankyou i was able to do that with the help of your video.
Can you please tell how to go back to the factory setting as now i am trying to do it on mac and its says backup corrupted.
Looking forward for you reply
Thankkyou
Hi Thanks for the video it is of great help. When I am trying to create a backup Folder in the External Hard Drive I am getting a error saying no Such file or directory. Could you please help as to how I fix this. My hard drive is named as back drive as well. Thanks.
This video is pure fucking GAS.
worked perfectly. thank you very much.
Does this store all backs on external drive frrom noe on, leaving internal ssd free of backups?
A small problem... It won't create multiple backup's. The new back up replaces the old one, and I got plenty of space on my external drive. Is there a solution?
Thank you soooo much!
:( but when you delete the backup files from the Mac ( to free space) - then re-plug the iPhone to Restore the backup from the external drive .. you can't. I have to manually drag the files AGAIN from the external drive back to the Mac. What's the point of creating an symbilic link then ? HELP!
when I go to mkdir /Volumes etc etc it says no such file or directory . what has gone wrong
Most complete back up video i have seen! Thanks for this, cannot wait to get my m1 and get this done.
Just one question, if i use external ssd like a x8 from crucial which is very fast - is the backing up ios device to external ssd speed still slower than backing up ios device directly to mac? Or its more-o-less same.
My guess is pretty much the same because the bottle neck is on the iphone side. Even the iPhone 12 still transfers data at USB 2.0 speed.
Fantastic Guidelines ! I just want to know if the external HDD is a Time Machine drive , will it be any conflict for back up ? And i tried its happening but the backup is taking forever ! Plz Help and suggest what should i do on this basis !
Hello! Could you please advise any solution if backup goes hours and hours.... and then stops at 90-95%?
same problem here
Thank you!
I got everything to work, but now I’m trying to restore my new phone from the backup, and it’s saying there’s not enough space on my phone. It’s the same 256gb phone. Do you know why it’s not working? Is it necessary to transfer the backup back to my Mac in order to restore the iPhone? It looked like you restored straight from the external drive.
1. If there’s two separate logins/users on mac. Do I need to do this step on the other user?
2. I hit back up now and it did it’s process. How ever when the back up was done, it wasn’t showing on “Manage backup” but it shows on the back up drive.
3. So I hit “back up now” again and it did not create a new folder for the new backup, but instead it added it to the first backup.
is there a way to undo commands and back up phone straight to Mac?
Best video! Finally solved the issue. Thank you!!
I followed this video last year and backed up everything on my crucial x8. 1 year all went smooth. Today My x8 crucial crashed so I had to format it. Now again should I follow this whole video to take back ups on this same drive? Or I need not do anything and backup directly?
Secondly if I want to back up on my laptop directly can I do it? Or I need to make some changes?
i have a iphone and two iPads would i have to do same procedure for each one ?
Hi! I follow every step on your video, but after drag both folder from the External Device and MobileSync, theres message on the Terminal that say “ln: illegal option”
What should i do with this? Thank u
I have the same issue! @TechCoreDuo, can you help?
I had the same issue. I found an answer online. Apparently, I forgot to separate the arguments in the last step. To fix, put a space after (ln -s) so it should be: ln -s /Volumes...
Very helpful! Thank you so much.
This is so helpful. Thank You !
It worked for me! thank you very much!
This was very helpful, thank you so much!
Thanks man, you are a legend!
I keep getting this
cd: no such file directory: /users/chris/Libary/Application\ Support/MobileSync
Any ideas?
For some reason when i try to complete the last part to connect backup to external, it says that its an illegal action. Im not sure what im doing wrong here. I will say that i use this SSD as my time machine, if that matters at all.
I want to backup both my iPad and iPhone on external drive. The Backup shortcut in MobileSync folder was created when I backed up my iPad. Do I delete this shortcut through Finder before I proceed with iPhone back up?
Hello I watched the video but after clicking “back up now”, my MacBook pro (2015, 128GB) gives me an error message “Could not back up the iPhone "iphone” because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iPhone.”. What should I do?
Can you still do this if you choose 'back up your most important data on your iPhone on to iCloud' instead of 'back up all of the data to this Mac'?
You're a genius.
I don't know why my Restore Backup button is disabled. I can see the backup is in the Manage Backups. Will the restore button enabled after I plug in another new iPhone?
Thank you for the video, it just worked perfectly. I could do a backup straight on my external harddrive.
However, I had an issue with my external harddrive and had to format it. And I can't find how to reset the original location of the backup back in App Support\MobileSync\
When I try to do a backup of my iphone I always get an error message:
Unable to back up the iPhone "iPhone Benoit" because the backup copy was damaged.
Delete the backup copy of this iPhone, then try again.
Did anyone get the same issue ? Anyone has a solution for this please ?
I did the process on the Hard Drive that I also use for Time Machine and it seems to give some problems:
1) It won't let me back up my iPhone.
2) Now it also won't let me do a regular TimeMachine Backup of the MacBook saying disk is full although there are 500GB of free space, more than double my MacBook's capacity...
Anyone knows the reasons behind this? Or a safe way to undo the process of the video? I'm definitely not an expert with Terminal...
Thanks in advance!
Thank you sir
Thanks for help, much appreciate it
I moved my backup back to my local drive so I could restore my phone. When I plug my phone in and try to restore back up, it won’t show up. Any ideas of what’s happening? I desperately need that backup 😭
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can you restore an iphone from a backup on the external drive? Without moving the ios backup's back into the internal drive. Thank you.
when i backup my phone is keeps coming up as corrupted now, you know any chance what the issue is? thank you
I’m stuck at the mkdir part. My MacBook says it can’t find the directory, so I can’t create the folder in my external drive. any help would be great. I have Mac OS 11.5.2.
These small things are still so hard to do on MacBooks 💻
Does this work for 2 different iPhones?
Hi, I am trying to create a directory on my external hard drive using terminal but i am getting an error saying that permission denied. I checked the permissions and it shows i have read and write access to external hard drive.. any suggestions?
Great Video dude!
Hi, I followed all the steps you made but after clicking “back up now”, my MacBook Air (2019, 256GB) gives me an error message “Could not back up the iPad because an error occurred”
Thanks Apple for the very descriptive error. Maybe restart everything and try again? Let me know how it goes. (What iOS and macOS version are you on?)
@@TechCoreDuo All of my devices are running the latest OS (Big Sur 11.1, iOS&iPadOS 14.3). It's probably my iPad Pro (2018, 256BG)'s fault since it has over 100GB of "Other" storage and has iCloud syncing issues.
I restored it from iCloud backup and then successfully backed up to the external hard drive using the method you described. I also backed up my iPhone SE (2020, 128GB). Thank you for your help!
@@markzhangMA261 ok thanks for the update! Happy holidays!
Hi, this worked for me great! but can I delete the old back up? if no there is not point to save space, I have the M1 MacBookair 256gb, thanks for the videos
If I understand correctly, yes you can delete the backup. But if you ever need to restore, you’ll need to send back to the Mac from the hard drive. Meaning you will need that much space available when/if that day comes.
@@joebattaglia1484
I tried it multiple times, and the only format that worked for me on the M1 is the Exfat, all other formats when I did the back up would not save correctly, and the backup will not be found if/when restoration process. Thank you tho I learned a lot doing this.
Thanks! Question - I followed these instructions, and I can see the backup on my external HD, but when I go to "Restore Backup…" (in Finder when I plug my phone into my Mac) it only shows the backups on my Mac HD, not my external HD. Anyone know how to get to the external HD backups?
Any fix?
@@marcomesoraca4441 it’s been a while since I tried, but I don’t think I was able to figure anything out, no.
Thanks a lot for this man!