Can You Have More Than One iPhone Backup?

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Can You Have More Than One iPhone Backup?

Read this article by Apple: Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Here's a link: Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

I was going through it out of simple curiosity, but surprised to see (we have three devices) only one backup for my iPhone, only one backup for my wife's iPhone and only one backup for her iPad. Yet, every time we do an iOS update (on this MacBook Pro) I make sure that the "backup to this Mac" has been done.

So, does Apple somehow limit the device backups to one each, and if not, how does one increase the number of backups? When I first started this exercise I fully expected to find a CCC or ChronoSync type of backup list, where I could go back months and months with the restore.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Sep 23, 2023 12:51 PM

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Rudegar

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Sep 23, 2023 4:00 PM in response to MargeHomer

suppose given the size they override the older backup not to fill the storage of the users

but you can physically make a copy of the back before it's overridden

Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

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Sep 24, 2023 4:46 AM in response to MargeHomer

To anyone reading this post, there is one very important piece of information from Apple.

To restore from a relocated backup file, you need to move the backup file back to where it was in the Backup folder (original location is /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup) or the file won't work.

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MargeHomer Author

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Sep 23, 2023 6:34 PM in response to Rudegar

Thanks Rudegar, I've put together a short rsync that will run via Automator when I do my regular backups, copy the files, and when new ones take their place, copy those as well. Works!

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