Backing up iPhone app files...

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Hey all.

I was wondering if it's possible to backup files when performing a restore on an iPhone, such as saved profiles for your games. I've been stung once before when I restored my iPhone and lost all my progress on my games and I don't want to make the same mistake again.

Trouble is, the iPhone is pulling the old "this device is not authorised" and wants me to perform a full restore before it'll let me sync. Why Apple couldn't have made it easier to use i'll never know but hey, that's the way it is.

I've got music on there, which is backed up. All the apps can be re-downloaded if needed, so they're of no concern.

So, what are my options?
 
This is something I'm very keen to find out. I managed to lose a load of progress on a game once and I've never gone back to that game since. Restoring from a backup does restore any game files but a complete blat without restoring from a backup loses any progress which is frustrating.
 
It would be really nice if there was a way of making it so that saved games/settings folder was somehow accessible within the Dropbox for example, this would be really nice but I doubt Apple would allow this. :(

Also, I was wondering, if you don't have your apps backed up in itunes and you to a complete erase on your iPhone, does this mean you have to re-buy the apps in a similar way to the music for itunes, or is it like Steam where you can re-download the apps/games without having to pay again?
 
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Once you've downloaded the apps they're yours for good. Same with iTunes.

It's just that when you re-download the app, you don't keep your saves.

Apple really need to fix this, seems a pretty large oversight to me?
 
Well it died in the night and killed itself totally. When I got up this morning it considered itself "deactivated" (I don't have a clue why) and refused to do anything until I connected it to iTunes.

Upon doing so, iTunes did a restore and wiped EVERYTHING. All my game saves, gone, again.

To say i'm angry is an understatement.
 
When you do a backup, it backups all your saved game states too. then you can wipe as much as you want and do a restore to that backup and all your apps and games will be back again
 
Not this time. It didn't give me the option to restore from a backup, or to create one before it did the restore.

Then again, the phone was useless unless I did exactly what iTunes said.
 
When I recently restored my phone after upgrading to an iPhone 4 all of my saved games were present. Annoyingly, World Series of Poker saved my profile but gave me over 4 billion dollars in the bank, whereas I only had a couple of thousand before. I haven't played it since because it's taken the fun out of trying to build up my bank roll, and I can't find out how to reset it :(
 
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