Most people are not in habit of creating backup but one of the common recommendations before purchasing Iphone is to create backup of iPhone data to save your iphone data from being lost in case of corruption. If you have backup copies of all iphone data available you can recover data lost. iTunes is an important utility which is used to sync or create backup of all iphone data like music, videos, songs, images, contacts etc, which can be used to restore data in case it is lost. But sometimes iTunes fails to create backup and displays “iTunes could not backup” error messages.

Take an example, when ITunes pop ups following error messages while you are trying to sync or create backup of iPhone data:

“iTunes could not backup iphone because the backup was corrupt”

Causes of error:

The error may have occurred because of any kind of interruption during sync process or if Iphone is unplugged or is terminated unexpectedly it may cause corruption of iphone backup data. You may resolve “iTunes could not backup” error by deleting corrupted existing backup.

How to resolve the error?

1.You may try deleting existing backup by following methods:

A) Launch itunes application.

B) Go to edit options and open iTunes preferences and delete backup.

Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.

2. You can try manual method to create iPhone backup. Right-click (or Control-click) the iPhone or iPod touch in iTunes under Devices and choose Backup.

If you are not able to resolve the error and come out of the situation then you may trying to create backup of iPhone data by Iphone backup software which efficiently creates backup files without any error and saves them at user specified location.