04-04-2010, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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Ipad sync and back up
Can some lucky person with an ipad (unlike us in the UK) tell us of their experience with syncing and backing up the ipad.
Whilst I found Stanza a wonderful app on the iphone it was a disaster if one tried to put more than about 70 books on it, working at backing up for ever and preventing a full sync. Is there a similar problem with ibooks and or good reader. I would like to store a lot of books on a ipad but wonder if it will let me |
04-10-2010, 06:08 AM | #2 |
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Disable the backup
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06-04-2010, 05:59 AM | #3 |
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ipod backup software
yes there exists some issues with backing process of iPad, because when I backed it the first time it went through very quickly, and this I believe is mostly for the few songs and emails there in it. While searching for solution I came across iPad backup software, after that I sync and backup with its help, it really made the work easy and not take more than handful of minutes, even when there are hundreds of songs in my iPad.
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06-04-2010, 08:05 AM | #4 | |
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the iPad only syncs, backs up any new data! If I sync my ipad then over the next three weeks download nothing the sync and backup takes seconds. If I download 2 apps and a book during theat time then it takes like a minute or two as it transfers the data. doesnt matter if I have 50GB of stuff on there! or not. |
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06-04-2010, 10:25 PM | #6 | |
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06-04-2010, 10:28 PM | #7 |
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No problems synching either iPad nor iPhone 3GS here-but I never had more than 20-30 books in Stanza at any one time.
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06-05-2010, 03:42 AM | #8 |
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06-05-2010, 03:46 AM | #9 | |
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The backup doesn't back up content - just settings, etc, so it's really of very little use when it comes to preserving anything useful following a crash. |
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06-05-2010, 03:51 AM | #10 | |
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When I had to replace an iPhone I did a backup from previous phone and everything, notes, photos, contacts, apps, messages etc were all put onto the new device from the backup. I have then had to do a full restore and backup numerous times on iPhone due to jailbreak related crashes and it always puts everything back on my phone. Even accepting people don't want to do a backup why not turn the auto backup off in iTunes? |
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If you do a Google search for "slow iPad backup" you'll see that this is a problem that pretty much everyone seems to have. |
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06-05-2010, 04:02 AM | #12 | |
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If you were to backup your iPad now then force it into restore mode and sreinstall the os thus removing everything a restore from previous backup would then restore it to exactly as it is now. Basically when device is connected in iTunes click on the device icon and I can under the summary tab untick 'open iTunes when this iPad is connected' then when you connect the device nothing will happen. Then when you open iTunes the device will show up but it won't sync or do any backups then unless you actually click on 'sync' |
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06-05-2010, 04:11 AM | #13 | |
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Most of the content of my iPad is video. I drag it directly from Windows Explorer onto the iPad in iTunes; it's never in my PC iTunes library. If I were to subsequently delete that video from its original location on my PC, then from what you're saying, it could not get restored from my iPad backup, because the backup doesn't contain a copy of the video itself, right? That's what I mean when I say that the backup doesn't backup the contents of the iPad. Apologies if I've misunderstood you. |
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06-05-2010, 04:18 AM | #14 | |
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But your backup data has the location of that file so it will back it up to your iPad. Eg if you delete it from your iPad then you stillhvae another copy, a 'backup' if you will. I u derstand that it's your primary copy but as far as theiPad is concerned the file stored on your pc IS the backup as you can restore your iPads deleted file from it. When I backup my pc hard drive to an external HD it's the same thing! If I then navigate to the external drive and delete a file the. Of course I couldn't back it up. Yourcomputer is your backup device for your iPad, if you then delete things from your backup then of course you can't back up. Basically assuming you don't do that then as of right now your computer contains a backup of everything on your iPad.. Correct? This of course saves you having to have all of your video files stored on your pc twice! Once in iTunes as well as it's original place. You do have full backup facility it just isn't all stored in one folder, it's all stored on one computer. Last edited by stustaff; 06-05-2010 at 04:20 AM. |
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06-05-2010, 04:28 AM | #15 | |
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Thanks for the explanation - that makes more sense now. |
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