Can I do a selective iPhone restore? (ie. modify iTunes backup files?)

[sofakng]

I'd like to restore/format my iPhone but I only want to reinstall a couple of applications (games).

Can I restore the saved data for these applications without restoring my entire backup file?

Also, I'm referring to a non-jailbroken phone. Thanks!

[Simon]

On a non-jailbroken phone I dont think so. On a jailbroken one you can use something like iphone backup extractor or juicephone and manually take what you want from your backup and put it back on your phone.

[sofakng]

Thanks for the reply.

I've found something called iBackupBot which claims to allow modifications of the backup file but I'm not sure.

This doesn't seem like too complicated of a task. I just don't want to restore *EVERYTHING*

EDIT: Does restoring a backup automatically resync all the applications you had installed? If not, I wonder if I only sync specific applications what would happen?

I wonder what's actually in a backup file anyways... I've always been skeptical of un-jailbreaking my phone and restoring a backup because it seems like a lot of "garbage" would be restored to the phone...

[Simon]

Ya restoring a backup will install all the application you had on before. You can just remove them after though.

[sofakng]

Hmph. That's really messy but I guess it will work.

Is there any other way to hack at the backup/restore files?

[Simon]

Not too sure sorry