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  • How do you backup single apps without the apk as you recommend? Titanium backup? Pull /data/data/com.whatever-app-name? Other ways to do this?
    – Nomenator
    Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 23:01
  • @Nomenator accessing /data/data requires root permissions so adb pull from that directory requires root permissions + adb root (which itsel requires a patched adb binary). As this answer is about the command adb backup I am wondering why you ask for adb pull instead of trying adb backup for the package name you want to backup.
    – Robert
    Commented Nov 10, 2021 at 8:10
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    so do i understand this correctly, that there is ... with android 13 ... NO WAY to fully backup your device so it is recoverable after a disaster? I already find it extremely stpd that there is no out of the box way from google themselves like there is with IOS, but it gets even more insane ...
    – Chris
    Commented Jan 29, 2023 at 10:28
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    "On Android there is no way to backup the inner data in a secure way" Funny that Seedvault manages that. It's a replacement to the Google Cloud backup used with several custom ROMs. It allows you e.g. to store your backups on an external SD card or a cloud service under your control (Nextcloud). As long as you have the pass phrase, you thus could restore at least app backups to any device, and even more to an identical device. TL;DR: enforcing encrypted backups (phrase stored on-device in (hardware) keystore) would be what "secures" backups.
    – Izzy
    Commented Feb 7, 2023 at 23:17
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