Timeline for How to fully backup non-rooted devices?
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| Nov 14, 2023 at 2:07 | history | edited | Amazon Dies In Darkness | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2016 at 7:29 | comment | added | Izzy | @Celeritas this is not a discussion area (be welcome to our chat room). But even on a computer, you would format the disk in such a case. I've never heard restoring a backup took care to remove "extra files" without being explicitly told. That would very much alienate me. Even more so as an ADB backup can be a full backup or just cover a single app; in the latter case, it would even be absurd would it delete everything else on restore. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 11:01 | comment | added | Izzy | @Celeritas yes, of course: the factory-reset in between. Why should restoring a backup delete additional stuff installed meanwhile – unless being explicitly told to? | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 8:41 | comment | added | Celeritas | @Izzy I just tried the solution using adb manually. I made a backup, installed a new app, and restored from the backup. The new app was still there. So I wouldn't call this a backup. Am I missing something? | |
| Oct 2, 2016 at 16:58 | comment | added | Ole Tange | From GitHub: NOTE: THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN DEPRECATED. Holo Backup was an interesting experiment to see how much could be done with ADB Backup alone, but ADB Backup itself proved to be very unreliable in practical use, and as such it is not advised for actual use. | |
| Nov 8, 2015 at 14:27 | comment | added | Kane | I successfully restored the data to new nexus 6p from nexus 4. However the google service always crash. I can't set up my google account in 6p. So it actually does not work for android 6.0. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 22:58 | comment | added | Adi Inbar |
The screen shots show a warning in red letters at the top, Backups can only be restored to the same device. That's ambiguous; does "same device" means the same model, or does it have to actually be the same physical device? My main concern is to protect against loss or destruction of the device, by creating backups that can restore an exact image of my current device to a replacement of the same model, so this makes all the difference in the world.
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 17:09 | comment | added | Simon | @Izzy: Yes to clarify Windows/Linux/Android (4.0+) | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 16:58 | comment | added | Izzy | And also note that, at least according to its name, it probably requires at least Android 4.0 -- as does Ryan's solution. Nevertheless, +1 from me as this makes it easier for those people afraid of the command line :) | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 16:02 | history | edited | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 15:42 | history | answered | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |