I've been following the message streams about upgrading to iOS5. Many people say they've backed up their iTunes to a hard drive. I'm using Time Machine from Snow Leopard to back up my MacMini hard drive to a separate hard drive.
Do I need to make another backup specifically from iTunes, or is the Time Machine backup enough to retrieve my info if things go south while I'm upgrading?
In the past I haven't had problems upgrading my OS or iOS. I have zero experience dealing with upgrade problems. So I'd be in big trouble if my iPhone 3GS or iPad2 bricks on me.
I run Time Machine backups continually, and irregularly also make clone backups as well. This should not be necessary for what we're talking about here.
Do you regularly sync the 3GS and the iPad to the Mini? How often?
Connect the iPad. When you connect a device with an older version of the iOS, it will ask when you first connect if you want to upgrade. I'm guessing you have NOT sync'd recently, or you would have already encountered that.
You can tell it to download only (since it's a multi-hundred megabyte file), and proceed with the next step:
Right/control click on the iPad in the left pane and select "Backup".
When that is complete, perform a normal sync (click on "sync" in the lower right corner of the right pane).
Wait for the iOS download to complete, then click on the Update button. Wait. Wait. Wait.
If something seems to fail, you always have the option of restoring the iDevice to a "new" state, then restoring from the backup you just made.
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