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Backup corporate iPhones

Hi,
We have a number of iPhone users at our company but they can download apps, music, etc. using their personal iTune account. The issue I have is when it comes to upgrading there devices how can I backup them up first, upgrade and then restore. Are there 3rd party apps out there that will allow you to backup the entire iPhone?

We are looking to upgrade to iOS 5 on the iPhone which allows OTA upgrades. How does this change what we are tring to do?

Concerns are having corporate data out in iCloud or on someones home computer.

Thanks.

Chris

pretty sure the only tools are either icloud backup or itunes, this is why Iphones are not perfect corporate tools at the moment as both of these have security issues with the encryption or location or both of the backups.

alacount

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Do you know if email, contacts, calendar information is backed up to the iCloud?

MBobrek

If the iCloud is configured on the device, contacts/calendar is really pulled from the cloud. It's stored there. It's not backed up there.

One option you can use is a local backup that is encrypted/password protected. That would prevent anyone from grabbing the file(s) and restoring to another iPhone.

Chris

there are several examples of the enryption and password protection being cracked on iphone/itunes backup

it depends how far you take your concerns

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