{"id":354,"date":"2018-01-20T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-01-20T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T10:54:06","slug":"how-to-back-up-iphone-to-external-hdd-on-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/how-to-back-up-iphone-to-external-hdd-on-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to back up iPhone to external HDD on iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes is storing backups by default on local (system) hard drive. That takes heaps of space, so the external HHD would be better choise.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent this from happening, a\u00a0<strong>symbolic link<\/strong> has be to created and point onto a folder in external hdd.<\/p>\n<p>Following command in a <strong>terminal<\/strong> will do the trick.<\/p>\n<pre>ln -s \/Volumes\/<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1TB<\/span><\/strong>\/<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Backup<\/span><\/strong> ~\/Library\/Application\\ Support\/<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">MobileSync<\/span><\/strong>\/\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Just note the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1TB<\/span><\/strong> = name of external hdd (if it has spaces, then use <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;1TB&#8221;<\/span><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Backup<\/span><\/strong> = folder on external HDD<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">MobileSync <\/span><\/strong>= does not have folder &#8220;Backup&#8221; prior running the command<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS: this is general procedure, which might differ based on version of iOS, especially location of backup files on local hdd. Tested on macOs Sierra 10.12.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes is storing backups by default on local (system) hard drive. That takes heaps of space, so the external HHD would be better choise. To prevent this from happening, a\u00a0symbolic link has be to created and point onto a folder in external hdd. Following command in a terminal will do the trick. ln -s \/Volumes\/1TB\/Backup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}