Sunday, August 15, 2010

How Manually Backup iPhone SMS Database

  1. SSH or SFTP in to your phone using the IP address listed in your Wifi settings. (Port: 22, username: root, password: alpine). You may use a gui-client such as WinSCP for Windows and Fugu for Mac.
  2. CD to the directory: /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS
  3. Copy sms.db to your local computer
  4. Use SQLiteBrowser to view the Messages table and Export table to CSV

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