phranker’s Think Tank

With the release of 1.1.4 and the news that both the Dev Team’s Independence & Zibri’s Ziphone both work with the new firmware, I thought it was about time to upgrade my 1.1.2 OOTB 1.1.2 JB iPhone. However, I wanted to make sure I had a full backup of everything just in case

Here is a small, sweet little command you can run in Terminal from the directory in which you want the backup placed into.

ssh -C -l root [ip of iphone] "cd /; tar zcpf - ." | tar xf -

ssh -C -l root [ip of iphone] "cd /private/var; tar zcpf - ." | cat > PrivateVar.tar.gz

This should just be a starting point, read the commands and make sure you understand what is being done and you should be able to tweak them to fit your specific needs. Also, the ‘User Space’ backup may just be enough, especially if you used BossTools to move your Apps into the media partition (or did it yourself with a syslink like I did).

Hope this helps some of ya… at least give ya some sense of security before jumping into a 1.1.4 upgrade.