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Has anyone managed to backup an iPhone with iTunes and bottle or wine?

Hey everyone!

Sadly, I’m forced to have an iPhone because of work. It’s a good device but I hate the philosophy behind it.

Right now I have a windows 10 vm to run iTunes and backup that phone.

It takes around 30gb on my Surface Go 1 with a 128gb ssd.

If I could use bottles or wine to backup my iPhone, it would save me some space and help me fully get rid of windows.

Sadly, last time I tried none of these worked. I think I managed to install iTunes, but then it crashed and sent me some weird messages.

So has anyone managed to backup an iPhone with these programs?

TCB13 ,
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Maybe you can ask the people here lemmy.world/comment/4502628 that say that Wine is perfect and there are good alternatives to everything.

owatnext ,

Are you, like, holding a grudge or something? This seems super unnecessary and doesn’t appear to help OP at all.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Naaa it’s just that Wine sucks, overpromises and underdelivers. And people tend to have delusions about it.

ninekeysdown ,
@ninekeysdown@lemmy.world avatar

Since it’s a work phone they’re responsible for backing it up and managing it. That’s not something you should be doing at all. If they need you to have more than the standard 5G iCloud storage then they can purchase it for your work iCloud account. Don’t backup your work data onto a personal device. If they get sued do you really want to give over your personal computer as evidence? You’re opening yourself to a lot of liability so don’t do that.

Since you’re not going to listen 😂

The short answer is no. Longer answer is use a vm, best answer is use a Mac.

Even though I have a MacBook I don’t use it to backup my iPhone. It’s just not worth it, imo, to spend the time and storage. You can’t even restore it effectively without iCloud either so it kinda defeats the purpose. The only way I could see it being an option to consider is if you have very limited internet access and/or bandwidth.

jvrava9 ,
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I use idevicebackup2 github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

tvcvt ,

This is exactly what I use as well. It’s pretty awesome. Backup and restore work like a charm.

Dariusmiles2123 OP ,

Oh I’m gonna take a look at that. Thanks!

RedWeasel ,

This is what I use as well. It is part of the ‘libimobiledevice’ package, at least on my system.

Heratiki ,

Wine nor bottles are reliable enough for making backups in that fashion. You’re almost guaranteeing corrupting the backup and the same goes for restoring the backup.

If it’s for work and is required to be backed up then just backup to iCloud and have your work maintain the extra cost in size.

What philosophy do you speak of? Are you talking about the walled garden that is the App Store?

glad_cat ,

Can’t you use iCloud? I haven’t used iTunes for 10 years to backup that thing.

Dariusmiles2123 OP ,

I could but I don’t want to give any money to Apple 😇

glad_cat ,

It’s free for 5 GB of data, the applications don’t count since you can download them again.

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