Introduction
mdbackup is a command line Mac 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.
Windows users can use the shareware program iTunes Backup Manager to edit and extract the contents of backup archives.
Details
- http://ericasadun.com/ftp/Macintosh/ [Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-1.html [Archived 2008-11-05 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-2.html [Archived 2008-11-05 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-3.html [Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/recovering-data-from-mdbackup.html [Archived 2008-08-25 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/iphone-backups-part-4.html [Archived 2008-11-05 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/07/iphone-backups-part-5-even-mor.html [Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine]
- http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/21/mission-tuawpossible-back-up-your-iphone-with-time-machine/