{"id":11029,"date":"2015-04-10T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2015-04-10T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:50:00","slug":"archive-your-ios-device-backups-with-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/archive-your-ios-device-backups-with-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive Your iOS Device Backups With iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT203282\">Apple<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/04\/archive-your-ios-device-backups-with-itunes\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT203282\"><p>Always back up your data and files to iTunes before you install a prerelease version of iOS. Then archive the backup. If you back up to iCloud or if you don&rsquo;t archive your backup, you won&rsquo;t be able to restore from it if you go back to current version of iOS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>4. When the backup is complete, go to iTunes &gt; Preferences &gt; Devices.<\/p>\n<p>5. Find your device&rsquo;s backup and Option-click the backup.&nbsp;Choose Archive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should read &ldquo;Control-click the backup.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (via Dan Moren): Always back up your data and files to iTunes before you install a prerelease version of iOS. Then archive the backup. If you back up to iCloud or if you don&rsquo;t archive your backup, you won&rsquo;t be able to restore from it if you go back to current version of iOS. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,31,224,30],"class_list":["post-11029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-ios","tag-itunes","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}