I'm trying to figure out a way to back-up my iPhone 6S on my computer just in case something happens to my phone.
System:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
AMD A10-7890K APU
32GB RAM
I have tried setting up 2 VMs in VB, Win7 and Win10. Win7 saw the phone immediately, and started to try to download a driver. After about 20 minutes I left to do other things around the house, returned about 2 hours later and it had made zero progress. I'm assuming this is because Win7 is no longer supported. Then I installed the VB extension pack, and am able to browse the pictures in Win Explorer(or whatever it's called now), but iTunes doesn't see the phone. I then tried to install ideviceinstaller, added a repo, ran the install command, was told that there is a dependency issue: nothing provides libimobiledevice.so.5()(64bit). I then went looking for libmobiledevice, found a repo on opensuse.org, only to be told by zypper that the repo doesn't exist.

I really don't want to go back to dual booting as iTunes is the only program that I haven't found a Linux equivalent for. I'm just really confused as to how VirtualBox and Windows can see the phone as itself, but my GUI just sees it a a camera and offers me to explore it with Gwenview.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if this is posted in the wrong place, I'm sorry. Just let me know and I'll move it

https://libimobiledevice.org/
Google knows where it is.

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AFAIK, iTunes on a Windows box is the only supported way to back up an iPhone to a computer.
They can be backed up to “the cloud” Apple’s iCloud over a WiFi connection. See the Apple support pages.

These developers claim that their software will do everything itunes will do, on Linux, Windows, or Mac. I don't know, because I've never owned an iAnything. All I know is what I read on Teh Google.

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Then the OP should certainly check it out...I may even take look myself. The website was interesting.

The operative word in my post was “supported”

Apple has never been known for supporting anything outside the walled garden.

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Can I ask what data you want to back up from the iphone? I have the same problem, but took care of the music and numbers/pages documents and notes with manual backups, and use VLC for to replace the apple music app and Standard notes for, well, notes. Working on contacts now, not sure there is anything else I need to back up.
I'm newbie myself, and don't even have a linux laptop yet, but have a Librem 14 on order and prepping by trying different apps and ways to backup what I need from my iphone in the meantime.