{"id":4277,"date":"2018-07-29T22:18:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2018-07-30T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:14:15","slug":"how-to-backup-an-iphone-to-an-external-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2018\/07\/how-to-backup-an-iphone-to-an-external-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to backup an iPhone to an external drive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handphone storage is getting bigger and bigger.\u00a0 Latest generation iPhones have storage at 128GB.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To back up the iPhone,\u00a0 a similar amount of disk free space in the My Documents folder.\u00a0 This is usually located in the system drive, C.\u00a0 It is highly unlikely this amount of disk free space is available.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous websites with step by step procedure to redirect the backup to another drive or partition.\u00a0 I put the link below.\u00a0 I tried the guides and they don&#8217;t work with USB drives.\u00a0 The backup job backs up about 2GB and then stops.<\/p>\n<p>The reason was the 128 GB USB drive was formatted in FAT32.\u00a0 For some reason, iTunes only supports 2GB.\u00a0 Re-formatted to NTFS and the job completes successfully.<\/p>\n<p>I would advise keeping the original\u00a0Backup folder and delete the symlink.\u00a0 So that you can remove the USB drive without warnings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2009\/09\/11\/iphone-backup-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backup iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handphone storage is getting bigger and bigger.\u00a0 Latest generation iPhones have storage at 128GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[242,481],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-iphone","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}