So if your iPhone or other iDevice is experiencing problems, restoring your iDevice just might be your best option to get your iPhone back into shape and good health. Restoring your iPhone or other iDevice is fairly easy, just follow a few steps and you’re done! So let’s get to it!
A progress bar appears with time remaining as iCloud restores your data. Stay connected and wait for a progress bar to complete. Depending on the size of the backup and your network’s speed, this could take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour plus to complete. Disconnecting from Wi-Fi causes the progress to pause until you reconnect. When complete, iCloud starts downloading your apps. Another progress bar indicates your apps download.
If you want a specific app, tap its icon to move it ahead. Once your apps start downloading, you are able to use your iDevice even as content (apps, photos, music, etc) continues to restore. Depending on the amount of information there is, downloading content takes place in the background for hours and possibly days.
Follow best practice and connect your iDevice to Wi-Fi AND power to let the process complete. For more information on backing up your iDevices, check out our comprehensive guide to iOS Backing Up. Once you restore your iPhone and other iDevice and verify that everything is working as expected, make sure you turn on automatic backups via iCloud. You should always set your iCloud to backup automatically.
However, there are certain times when you want to perform a backup to iCloud immediately. Fortunately, there are options for backing up NOW. When the Back Up Now option is grayed out, check that you are connected to WiFi. If connected via a public internet network, there may be restrictions in place that make iCloud Backup unavailable. When possible, contact a system administrator or IT department for assistance.
Only new files and those which have been modified need to be backed up - this is called incremental backup. Yet another thing to watch out for is the ease of restoring backed up files. Some software and services allow you to get inside a backup and retrieve specific files, while others force you to restore the entire backup.
This is why it's important to read reviews of backup software. What should I use to backup my Windows PC, Traditionally, backups have been carried out locally to external hard drives, but you can also use optical discs such as DVD or Blu-ray, or a USB flash drive if you don't have many large files. Ideally you should do this as well as using an online service. Optical discs are cheap but hardly convenient.
You can’t schedule a backup at night, for example, because you’ll have to be present to swap discs. And you can't easily back up files from a phone or tablet to DVD or Blu-ray. For archiving - storing data long term - you’ll also have to give consideration to data longevity because this varies from one type of media to another.
A hard disk will probably be reliable for five years although the risk of accidental damage is greater, and for flash drives 10 years has been suggested, but reports vary. Exactly how long data lasts on optical media depends on a number of factors such as whether the disk is writable or re-writable, the manufacturer, and the environment in which it’s stored. Under optimum conditions data should be readable for a century but there have been reports of discs being unreadable after just two years.
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