Backup iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Using iBackMyi Shell Script

It seems that the only thing that we are really lacking in the iPhone jailbreak community is a good working backup utility or applications that will allow us to back all the content of our iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Bu the good news is that, if you want to backup your iOS device you can use a utility called iBackMyi. As the name suggests, it will backup the content of your iOS device. And best of all its absolutely free.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, iBackMyi is a shell script and it will backup your user defined directories and creates gzipped tarball for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Addtionally, iBackMyi also supports FTP sites so that yopu can uload the content of your iOS device and download it to your computer or laptops.

iBackMyi backups the following:
1) AppStore list
2) Cydia sources list
3) List of Cydia packages installed on your device
4) Description of Cydia packages
5) List of themes installed on your device
6) iFile Bookmarks
7) Tweak preferences
8) Safari bookmarks and browsing history
9) SMS database and call history

Now follow the step-by-step guide posted below to backup your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad using iBackMyi.
Step 1: First, download .deb file using this link.
Step 2: Now you have to copy the .deb file to /var/mobile/ and then install it via iFile.
Step 3: Once done, launch MobileTerminal (found in Cydia app) and then type:
- su
- alpine
- ibackmyi ( all lowercase )
Step 4: Now you will get the backup from /var/mobile/media/iBackMyi

Now,you have successfully backuped your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch using iBackMyi.

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