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Understanding iPhone Backup Files
Introduction
mdbackup is a utility by Erica Sadun. It extracts plist and embedded databases from the *.mdbackup files stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
Erica's articles talk you through how to extract information from these files.
Details
- http://ericasadun.com/ftp/Macintosh/
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-1.html
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-2.html
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-3.html
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/recovering-data-from-mdbackup.html
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-4.html
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/07/iphone-backups-part-5-even-mor.html
- http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/21/mission-tuawpossible-back-up-your-iphone-with-time-machine/