How do you backup your Android?
Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#2Android internal storage backup with Termux (and ssh daemon and rsync):
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access
and apps I use the internal Google mechanism.
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#3The classic tools for local Android backup are/were Titanium Backup, Swift Backup, and 3C All-in-One Toolbox. Here is a comparison chart provided by the latter versus Titanium:
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#4I just let Google handle it with the built in backup: https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9149304?hl=en&co...
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#5By throwing it in a trash bin :)
Pretty reliable and you only need it once )
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#6The only data I care about on the phone already gets backed up by Google and is then exported regularly via Google Takeout. I don't live on my phone so I tend not to generate much of any value on it other than random pictures of things.
Prior to Google automatically backing up everything, I used Titanium Backup.
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#7I don't. Anything worth saving is not on my phone.
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#8My device is rooted and I use NeoBackup to backup apps with all their data (including what the app developer marked as "should not be backed up", often data that they would like you to backup on their own cloud instead).
Syncthing synchronises these backups to my home server automatically, as well as the phone's user data (photos, mainly).
The photos are additionally sent to Photoprism.
I avoid Google's cloud as much as I can.
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#9I backup photos onto external drives every few months when I remember too. Is there anything else to backup?
Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
#10Install adb then:
adb pull /sdcard/ /path/to/backup