Not enough space to restore iPhone from backup
Greetings,
The error message is fairly self-explanatory but it would be helpful to know how a restore from iTunes on an iPhone actually works to understand WHY the error is generated. Since this backup I have is a few weeks old and belongs to the iPhone I wish to restore I'm guessing there's more at play than the backup size being less than the TOTAL storage on my phone.
For example, my phone is a 128Gb version and the current usage is roughly 65% at 84Gb. That leaves about 44Gb available. I know the numbers don't perfectly add up but I'm using the iPhone's storage section to generate them. I'm running iTunes on a Windows machine that is dual boot(Linux). When I mount the Windows partition and cd to where the backup lives and use du to check its size I get 47Gb.
So I'm guessing when you restore, your target device needs the available space for the backup to copy to the target for restore? Is that a correct assumption?
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