redromnon / ibackep

A lightweight GUI backup manager for Apple iPhone and iPad on Linux

iBackep

iBackep is a simple and lightweight GUI backup manager for the Apple iPhone and iPad built using Flet.

Built exclusively for 🐧 Linux.

Under the hood, the program makes use of pymobiledevice3 for performing operations.

Features

• Perform unencrypted backups
• Restore from both unencrypted and encrypted backups

Tested on iPhone SE 2 and iPhone 5S

Pre-requisite

You will need the zenity program for the program to work.

Ubuntu/Debian users can install it using:

sudo apt-get install zenity

Fedora users:

sudo yum install zenity

Download

Head over to Releases and download the latest version's executable.

Roadmap

• Create encrypted backups
• Better UI
• Display information about previous backups like backup history
• Support for customized backup and restore operations

Support

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ibackep's Issues

Arch Linux can't find Zenity

Describe the bug
Zenity in Linux Arch not found although installed

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open the app by clicking on the app icon
2. Click on the "open folder" - Icon
3. Error message: "Looks like Zenity is not installed"

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux Arch
• Zenity version 4.0.1 installed

Executing backup

version 2.0.0 used

after proividing pin code this error is generated nothing happnes onlu backup failed messsage in gui

Backup running...
0.0
0.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ui/operations.py", line 58, in backup
File "pymobiledevice3/services/mobilebackup2.py", line 91, in backup
File "pymobiledevice3/services/device_link.py", line 61, in dl_loop
pymobiledevice3.exceptions.PyMobileDevice3Exception: Device link error: {'ErrorCode': 205, 'ErrorDescription': 'Error reading backup properties (MBErrorDomain/205). Underlying error: Error deserializing properties: Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data (MBErrorDomain/11).', 'MessageName': 'Response'}

‘Looks like Zenity is not installed’

Hello, I’m getting a ‘Looks like Zenity is not installed’ error when I click on the folder icon. I can confirm zenity is installed, when I run zenity —version it shows 4.0.1. Also when running ‘which zenity’ it shows that it is installed at usr/bin/zenity.

I’m on Nobara 39 KDE.

Thanks in advance

Backup never completes.

I started using iBackep today -under Fedora 39 ( usbmuxd-1.1.1^20230720git61b99ab-1.fc39.x86_64 - libimobiledevice-1.3.0^20230705git6fc41f5-1.fc39.x86_64 - libimobiledevice-utils-1.3.0^20230705git6fc41f5-1.fc39.x86_64 ). My device is an iPhone SE 2020 running iOS 17.0.3 .

The device is recognized, the backup starts and runs for a while then stops with:

Exception in thread Thread-26 (do_backup):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "threading.py", line 1016, in _bootstrap_inner
File "threading.py", line 953, in run
File "ui/app.py", line 130, in do_backup
File "ui/operations.py", line 51, in backup
File "flet/control.py", line 259, in update
File "flet/page.py", line 197, in update
File "flet/page.py", line 213, in __update
File "flet/connection.py", line 104, in send_commands
File "flet/connection.py", line 119, in _send_message_with_result
File "flet/reconnecting_websocket.py", line 73, in send
File "websocket/_app.py", line 234, in send
File "websocket/_core.py", line 283, in send
File "websocket/_core.py", line 311, in send_frame
File "websocket/_core.py", line 525, in _send
File "websocket/_socket.py", line 170, in send
File "websocket/_socket.py", line 147, in _send
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

After the crash the spinning icon on the iPhone is still there and disappears only when I disconnect the cable.

Relevant dmesg entries:

[20800.694028] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[20800.823710] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=12a8, bcdDevice=12.08
[20800.823720] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[20800.823723] usb 3-1: Product: iPhone
[20800.823725] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[20800.823728] usb 3-1: SerialNumber:
[20800.907026] ipheth 3-1:4.2: ipheth_enable_ncm: usb_control_msg: 0
[20800.907473] ipheth 3-1:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
[20800.909977] ipheth 3-1:4.2 enp0s20f0u1c4i2: renamed from eth0
[21268.793928] apple-mfi-fastcharge 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 10
[21268.804899] ipheth 3-1:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet now disconnected

Please let me know how to help debug this issue, thank you.