How to find the iphone backups?

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How to find the iphone backups?

Where does itunes store backups from my iphone? I want to make an extra copy somewhere else incase my computer should crash.

Im using windows.

I read somewhere that they are stored in c:\users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

Is that accurate? All thats there is a couple of folders with ridiculously long names like 5e696f1ad14e411680c85415db7d8e6b8ab348273 and inside there are a bunch of small files with similar garbage names. Are these the backups? I thought the backup was a single file like an .ispw file or something?

Can somebody confirm?

If I want to take this backup and make a copy of it and then use it again (say my computer crashes or I get a new one or whatever) how do I go about it?

Thanks.

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jun 19, 2011 3:15 AM

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wjosten

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Jun 19, 2011 3:42 AM in response to bob152

Your backups are stored here:

iTunes places the backup files in the following places:

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

It is an SQLite data base. If you want to copy your iPhone backup, copy the entire folder. Read more here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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