Hey everyone!

Sadly, I’m forced to have an iPhone because of work. It’s a good device but I hate the philosophy behind it.

Right now I have a windows 10 vm to run iTunes and backup that phone.

It takes around 30gb on my Surface Go 1 with a 128gb ssd.

If I could use bottles or wine to backup my iPhone, it would save me some space and help me fully get rid of windows.

Sadly, last time I tried none of these worked. I think I managed to install iTunes, but then it crashed and sent me some weird messages.

So has anyone managed to backup an iPhone with these programs?

    • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 months ago

      This is exactly what I use as well. It’s pretty awesome. Backup and restore work like a charm.

  • Heratiki@lemmy.ml
    6·
    9 months ago

    Wine nor bottles are reliable enough for making backups in that fashion. You’re almost guaranteeing corrupting the backup and the same goes for restoring the backup.

    If it’s for work and is required to be backed up then just backup to iCloud and have your work maintain the extra cost in size.

    What philosophy do you speak of? Are you talking about the walled garden that is the App Store?

        • woelkchen@lemmy.world
          6·
          9 months ago

          If it’s a work phone, they should be paying for it, not you.

          If OP is in the same situation as me, then he has a work phone that he can use privately as well. It’s basically a free high-end phone. Am I forced (OP used that term) to use it privately? No. I could buy a second phone, put my SIM in there, and run around with two phones all day. Not going to do that, to many downsides. And since I can use that phone privately as well, my private phone data isn’t going onto any servers my employer controls.