On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Thursday 09 February 2012 16:06:18 Russell Coker wrote:
But I'm not happy to wipe out all my data which can't be backed up because the Android security policy prevents me getting root access for programs such as Titanium Backup.
With Android 4 you can now backup your device directly with adb, without (apparently) needing to unlock or root it.
So the hundreds of millions of people with Android phones only have to upgrade to Android 4.0 (which may be impossible) and wipe their data once before being able to backup. :( Also is adb easy to install yet? Last time I checked installing it required installing i386 libraries first. This will probably be easy in Debian/Wheezy, but in Squeeze it's not a good option.
I backed up my stock Galaxy Nexus with:
adb backup -shared -apk -all -nosystem
Now, of course, I've not tried to restore it yet anywhere.. ;-)
Might try in the emulator that comes with the SDK.
Being able to restore to a similar device isn't enough. Ideally you want to extract the data to different devices. It's not as if I'm about to find an OS/2 machine to access data that I backed up in the mid 90's. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/