Will or Can iCloud or iTunes back up Apps Documents or App Data

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I am developing an iPad App (will not put in App store, just ad-hoc deploy) that would have some documents save at apps Documents folder, and some where I need to enable the iCloud capability for some other function.

If I have no other special configuration (as I don't know), I would like to ask:

  1. Will / Can iCloud or iTunes backup the Documents folder and containing files? (I don't want this)

  2. What will be backup related to the App? (how about Library Folder)

  3. Is iCloud independent per App?

  4. If I restore the app to a new device, what will be preserved of not preserved?

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iCloud will backup the App data. See the iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview Support Document, but you turn off the App data backup on a per app basis. See the iCloud: Select which iOS apps to back up Support Document.

Basically the way that a backup and restore will work is iCloud will restore the App data, then will download the application from the iTunes Store (I'm not sure how this will work with an ad-hoc app.) Hope this helps.