iTunes’ full image backup of your iPhone can take much more than you’re willing to wait, if you made changes to the installed applications. I’m not talking about a minute or two, but tens of minutes, and it’s time we don’t have these days, so the solution is to disable the iPhone’s backup process, and skip it, isn’t it?

But there are two things (risks) you should consider before doing what ZeroLogic found out.

1. Don’t interrupt your ongoing backup process to skip it. Not that something will block or you losing warranty on your iPhone. It’s just that you may forget to do it correctly again and restoring would be useless because you’ll have only corrupted files.
2. Using this “solution” means that you won’t have a phone backup, so act with caution.

So here is what you have to do to disable the iTunes iPhone backup process:

This command will change a hidden setting in the iTunes preferences that will force it to skip the backup process.

1. - Quit iTunes.
2. - Open Terminal.app
3. - Copy and paste this in, then hit return:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. - Open iTunes
5. - Plug in your iPhone (2.0 or 3G) and sync.

It will take a few seconds, assuming you don’t have a ton of music or podcasts.

Changing the ‘true’ in step 3 to ‘false’ will re-enable the backup feature.

Let me know how it goes by leaving a comment here. I will not be held responsible if your phone takes a crap and you have no backup.

Enjoy!

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Apple iTunes is not going to open its gates to renting music, any time soon, and that is because Steve Jobs announced that there is no real interest in renting music : “People want to own their music”, he said. There seems to be lots of calls from the major music companies trying to convince Apple into renting music online, so they could rack more money from recurring income, but since Jobs said there’s little interest, I don’t think they will give in no matter what money they will see in the contracts.

Also, if we think that Apple is putting pressure on the big recording companies to drop the digital rights management (DRM) copy-protection, I don’t think they are interesting in renting right now. Apple has a deal with Emi Group Plc (3rd largest company in the business) to sell music without copy-protection which puts Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Vivendi’s Universal Music Group in a tough position if they won’t accept the new waves.

“We’ve said by the end of this year, over half of the songs we offer on iTunes we believe will be in DRM-free versions,” Jobs said. Let’s see what will happen next! - ALEX ION

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