BackOff

BackOff addresses a specific group of users within the community that posses an Apple device and perform regular backups of their gadgets. What BackOff does is speed up this certain process by disabling a Windows service from Apple.

First things first, this service that BackOff turns off is called Automatic Backup and it is an iTunes process that is turned on by default since you have deployed the iTunes application to your system. By killing it, you can gain precious times as BackOff can shrink the period that the sync operation usually takes to complete by quite an impressive amount.

The advantage of BackOff is clearly dramatic and does not need any more introduction as it can reduce the time from several tens of minutes to just a couple of minutes and that is enough. The drawback in this case is that, once you have turned off the iTunes automatic backup process, you may not be able to restore your device to its latest state if it goes berserk, if you did not manually back it up and since then you have also altered its contents.

Just to make sure that your Apple iPhone or iPod device has a valid backup that you can return in peace once the gadget refuses to work properly. As long as you are accustomed to the great deal of time the iTunes application consumes just to backup your device normally, then BackOff can surely spin you off with the change it is about to bring to your Apple backup procedure in terms of speed.