Manipulating iCloud backup file

[ralliart12]

Hi fellows. Recently I've sold my iPhone 4S. The last backup I've done using it, was in the form of an iCloud backup. Some time after the deal was done, I was surprised to find out,

iCloud will store your last three backups; however, if a device has not backed up to iCloud for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days, Apple reserves the right to delete the backups associated with that device.

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Anyway, I will probably not be getting my next iPhone so soon, & I have no other iPhone in my possession currently. So, I'm looking for means to retrieve my iCloud backup, potentially converting it into a local iTunes backup file, or means to prolong its existence in Apple's servers, e.g. converting myself into a paid iCloud storage customer, etc....

I've also looked into applications such as Plain Cloud & cloud Mate but they do not seem to be able to expose the "database" backup file (& instead just allowing users to exploit their entitled iCloud storage space)...

So, anybody has any suggestions? Worse come to worst, I may have to buy/loan another iPhone, & wipe that iPhone, restored from my iCloud backup, backup that iPhone using iTunes locally, etc...but I don't fancy troubling my peers for this issue, so looking into this sub-forum for expertise from the veterans here...

 

[bagyidaw]

AFAIK you can't manually manipulate iCloud backup files. And iCloud does not play well with non apple devices. So try to get an iPhone and retrieve your data.
I think there's something called iCloud control panel. Not sure what's that exactly. You could give it a try too.