If you are not regularly backing up your iOS iDevice(s) via iTunes, you might want to check to see when your last automatic iCloud backup was. You may be surprised to find that it was not yesterday, or the day before, or even the day before that.
For example, only one of our three iDevices has automatically backed up to the iCloud since Dec 26. Yesterday the iPad informed me that “the last backup could not be completed”. But of course it gave no indication why or what, if anything, I should do about it.
My iPhone just keeps trying…. to the tune of over a 1.5 GB of uploaded data every night, for three nights running… but still hasn’t produced a successful backup. Which is just a bit curious, because for the last 3 days my iPhone has said that the size of the next backup is only 45MB. Besides, since I don’t backup my Photos Library to iCloud, my iPhone’s last full iCloud backup was only 860MB. IOW my iPhone has uploaded more than enough data to do a full backup each night for 3 nights. And the only usable iCloud backup is 4 days old.
Today I deleted the iPad’s existing Dec 26th iCloud backup. After updating the iPad from 9.1->9.2, it told me that a full iCloud backup would be 775MB. So I told it to Backup Now. A little while later, after uploading only 70MB, the iPad gave up and told me that “the last backup could not be completed”. Since I can’t depend on them, I turned off iCloud backups. I’ll keep backing up to iTunes on our iMac, where I can be sure the backup actually happens.
—GetRealBro
For example, only one of our three iDevices has automatically backed up to the iCloud since Dec 26. Yesterday the iPad informed me that “the last backup could not be completed”. But of course it gave no indication why or what, if anything, I should do about it.
My iPhone just keeps trying…. to the tune of over a 1.5 GB of uploaded data every night, for three nights running… but still hasn’t produced a successful backup. Which is just a bit curious, because for the last 3 days my iPhone has said that the size of the next backup is only 45MB. Besides, since I don’t backup my Photos Library to iCloud, my iPhone’s last full iCloud backup was only 860MB. IOW my iPhone has uploaded more than enough data to do a full backup each night for 3 nights. And the only usable iCloud backup is 4 days old.
Today I deleted the iPad’s existing Dec 26th iCloud backup. After updating the iPad from 9.1->9.2, it told me that a full iCloud backup would be 775MB. So I told it to Backup Now. A little while later, after uploading only 70MB, the iPad gave up and told me that “the last backup could not be completed”. Since I can’t depend on them, I turned off iCloud backups. I’ll keep backing up to iTunes on our iMac, where I can be sure the backup actually happens.
—GetRealBro