Timeline for Does adb backup/restore still work because it says it's deprecated?
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| Dec 16, 2023 at 3:40 | history | edited | Robert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2023 at 13:40 | comment | added | genpfault |
@Izzy: "[Seedvault] uses the same internal APIs as adb backup which is deprecated and thus needs a replacement."
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| Feb 7, 2023 at 23:17 | comment | added | Izzy♦ | "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. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 6:16 | comment | added | Robert | @Pacerier there are backup solutions for Android but they require a rooted device. Android without root doesn't allow access to app data. Even with the AndroidKeychain is protected by security hardware and can not be extracted or backuped. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 1:01 | comment | added | Pacerier |
@Robert, This doesn't make sense. You have the device physically with you connected to your laptop via usb. So if adb backup doesn't work, surely there can be an (open source) tool that does what it fails to do?
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| Jan 29, 2023 at 18:11 | comment | added | Robert | @Chris This is not a matter of software but of software and hardware, thus simply implementing it would make Android be able to backup, but at the same time introduce a backdoor where you could access data that should not be accessible by anyone. Securing this requires a hardware anchor which is what Apple did, but Android has no such anchor. | |
| Jan 29, 2023 at 16:27 | comment | added | Chris | "On Android there is no way to backup the inner data in a secure way" ... i doubt ... there is just no will by anyone who could actually implement it (Google) - Plus: now they actually disable adb backup 🤯 | |
| Jan 29, 2023 at 11:20 | comment | added | Robert | @Chris Apple has the advantage that they control bot hard- and software and thus can easily implement a secure backup. On Android there is no way to backup the inner data in a secure way so that it could be restored on a new device without making the data dully accessible to the user. | |
| Jan 29, 2023 at 10:28 | comment | added | Chris | 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 ... | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 10:49 | history | edited | Robert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2021 at 15:52 | comment | added | Robert | @Nomenator Then only Google cloud backup is left on unrooted devices. | |
| Nov 13, 2021 at 15:47 | comment | added | Nomenator | @Robert Sorry, I misunderstood, I was thinking more in line of "what to do when adb backup does not exist anymore?" | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 9:26 | history | edited | Firelord♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2021 at 8:12 | history | edited | Robert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2021 at 8:10 | comment | added | Robert |
@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.
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| Nov 9, 2021 at 23:01 | comment | added | Nomenator | 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? | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:46 | vote | accept | 1789 | ||
| Nov 19, 2020 at 18:55 | history | answered | Robert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |