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After I published my guide to backing up an iPhone to a NAS over Wi-Fi last year, quite a few people got in touch with bug reports, feature requests, and requests to open-source the project. My main commitments kept taking priority, so progress on this side project has been slow. But I’ve kept using it and making changes along the way. Wi-Fi backups, encrypted backups, and notifications have been fairly reliable in my own setup. I’ve also added backup inspection and restore features, though restoring and extracting backups are still experimental and need more work. Over China’s National Day holiday, I finally found some time to release the updated version and the source code. If you’d like to tinker with it too, you’re welcome to join in. Here’s a look at what’s changed over the past year, what you’ll need for a new installation, and what to watch out for when upgrading. Project: iOS Backup on GitHub ...

A new version is here! iOS Backup has been updated and is now open source. For new features, setup instructions, and upgrade notes, see Automatic iPhone Backups to a NAS: Now Open Source. Mobile phones have become our very important companions, and their data is crucial to us. I have always regularly backed up my entire phone to my computer. Although this process is not troublesome, it requires manual operation every time, and occasionally I forget. Is there a more convenient way to complete this process? This blog shares a tool I recently tinkered with friends, which can automatically backup iPhone data to NAS or other Linux servers via Wi-Fi. ...