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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 24.04.2015 16:05, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think adb backup will work, but you can simply create a
> tarball of ~phablet/ on the phone, and then copy that file over to
> your PC. You will need to re-install any non-default applications
> or scopes after re-flashing the phone if with --wipe or --bootstrap
> options, but can just untar all the data back to ~phablet/ after
> the flash.
> 
> On the phone:
> 
> #: cd /home #: tar -cjvf /tmp/phablet-backup.tar.bz2 phablet/
> 
> On your PC:
> 
> adb pull /tmp/phablet-backup.tar.bz2 .
> 
> Then you can push it back onto the phone after flashing, and use
> tar -xjvf inside /home/ to recreate the files. Reboot and you
> should have everything back the way it was (minus needing to
> re-install any extra apps or scopes).


I guess to have it all you could create archives of
/userdata/user-data AND /userdata/system-data/

I'm not entirely sure of all the implications and I have not tried
this myself (yet).

I'm sure Oli can clarify :)

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 18:16 +0530, Guneet Narula wrote:
>> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to take a back up of my Nexus 4 Ubuntu phone. Does the adb 
> backup command work for ubuntu touch as well? To be precise, I want
> to export all my texts to a format such as csv. I am assuming that
> that will be super tough, so at least I should take a back up and
> try working with the .ab file.
> 
> I'd like to try the devel channel.
> 
> Guneet
>> 
> 
> 
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