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Any way to restore backups that are automatically deleted

I need a backup from a week ago, but my iCloud backs up every night and only keeps last two despite room in my iCloud storage.

iPad Air 2, iOS 12

Posted on Jun 10, 2019 1:35 PM

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Posted on Jun 12, 2019 8:17 AM

As an IT professional, I am aware servers and data are backed up and information can be restored. I am wondering if apple can restore my iCloud account to a previous point in time.

No.


Apple provides only a consumer level backup service with iCloud. iTunes can provide multiple restore points if needed.


Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Jun 12, 2019 8:17 AM in response to WileECoyote707

As an IT professional, I am aware servers and data are backed up and information can be restored. I am wondering if apple can restore my iCloud account to a previous point in time.

No.


Apple provides only a consumer level backup service with iCloud. iTunes can provide multiple restore points if needed.


Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Jun 12, 2019 11:33 AM in response to WileECoyote707

iCloud is not like a commercial Amazon tiered service, so no, Apple will not restore your account to a previous time. And I doubt they keep its state preserved for very far back anyway. “Backup” in consumer level cloud services just means your data is so massively redundantly stored that total loss is impossible. It does not mean the company hosting the service is maintaining historical snapshots at all, or at least not very far back in time. They will save that bandwidth for commercial customers or their own commercial usage, and charge a lot more for it. Just as AWS does for their tiered storage, backup and archival plans does.


In fact, under Apple’s consumer terms of use for iCloud, if you don’t backup an iOS device for more than 180 days, they reserve the right to go in and delete your existing older backups - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/

Any way to restore backups that are automatically deleted

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