Also keep in mind we are talking about restoring backups made to iTunes on a computer, not iCloud backup restores which can take a significant amount of time to complete on slower internet connections. The following troubleshooting steps only apply to iTunes restores made to and from a computer directly to an iPhone over a USB connection. I personally ran into this problem when restoring and setting up a new iPhone X via iTunes from a freshly made iPhone Plus backup.
The first attempt to migrate and restore the iPhone X with the backup in iTunes gave a time remaining estimate of 8 hours which slowly grew to 20 hours. For what it’s worth, this is not a particularly new issue, and in fact users have been reporting this problem for years on Apple Discussions, so it’s not a complaint to any particular iPhone model, iTunes version, or iOS version. Have you had any similar issues restoring backups to an iPhone or iPad with iTunes, Share your experiences and troubleshooting steps in the comments below, and let us know if the tips above resolved the problem for you.
Chances are that your iPhone or other iDevice is larger than the paltry 5GB iCloud account Apple offers for free. Or should I say, use an external drive in addition to that free or paid iCloud account. At Apple ToolBox, we recommend always having multiple backups of your iDevices. Ideally, we all should have at least two backups minimum—1 on the cloud and one on an internal or external drive. Best of all is to have two local and two clouds.
Because you never know—like humans, things fall apart and fail, a crisis happens, disasters strike. Who’s Afraid of Losing Data, I always back up my iPhone and iPad locally via iTunes. But it drives me crazy that I don’t get to decide which folder to use for my backup. And since I don’t get to control that, I don’t have the option to save it to an external drive. And that just darn buggers me!
You can of course manually backup your iTunes backup by finding the backup folder and dragging it to your external HD each time you backup. But what a pain! If you find yourself annoyed enough, like I am, then Apple Terminal is here to the rescue. So let’s get to it! 1. Open your external drive and create a new folder for the backup.
You should see a shortcut (symbolic link) to the Backup folder in the Mobile Sync window letting you know that the link to the external drive’s Backup folder is established. If all goes well, the backup file should now be on your designated external drive. Verify it is indeed there.
From now on, iTunes will back up your iDevice to the external drive so remember to connect it to your computer before you do a backup. If you do not have the external drive connected, the backup will fail. And if you need to restore your device from the backup, you’ll need to connect this external drive. As always, at Apple ToolBox we recommend you retain a backup to the iCloud in addition to your iTunes backup, just in case something goes wrong. And preferably, you follow the 2X2 rule with 2 cloud backups and 2 local backups. It feels like a lot of unnecessary storage I know, but should the day ever arrive when you need it, you’ll be thankful you have those backups at the ready. Remember, this is your insurance policy, and we want comprehensive coverage.
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