.I want to backup the gamesof my daughters phone with ADB. I activated USB-Debug and start backup with "adb backup -f [Name for the Backup].ab [PACKAGE_ID]"
After confirming the securityquestion in the phone backup starts and comes confirmation that backup is ready. In the ADB-folder on my PC I see a new wit the name of the backup, but it is only 1kb. When I make other backups they are also only 1kb.
Is this correct?
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Ok I ran a adb backup -all and after about an hour I ended up with a file about 10MBs in size
with adb backup -all -apk I end up with a 30MB file
What is going on here? what am I doing wrong. My 8 gig phone can't possible be being backup to such a small file can it?
Note this is not a NAND backup as I can not do that on my phone because of a locked bootloader, hence the reason I am trying to make these .ab backups cuz right now besides titan backup that is my only option.
Hi
i made a backup of my mobile using adb
I tried like 5 times to use "adb backup filename" to restore my apps but i think the restore process get stuck cause i dont have all my apps back after a "sucessfull restore" (according to my pc)
Is there a way to restore the ab file using a recovery metod?? o restoring the ab file from my SD card instead of my pc ??? or to convert the ab file to an img file??
thnx.
Hi folks. I took an adb backup (adb -d backup -apk -shared -all -f C:\Users\Tony\backup.ab) and now only want to restore data for a few apps.
I've used the Android Backup Toolkit to turn the .ab into an openable .tar file, so I tried copying a few com.appmaker.appname folders to the sdcard, then used Es File Explorer in root mode to copy the folders to /data/data, but the app doesn't seem to use the data (it looks like it did on first run).
Can anyone outline the steps required to restore data folders?
Thanks.
Tony.
Hi.
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How can I extract from a backup made with "adb pull" ? Thank you.
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Any help would really be appreciated here...
I have a backup that was made by booting to Recovery, then running:
Code:
adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 my_phone_mmcblk0_$(date +%Y%m%d).adbimg
How can I recover the contents, please?
According to fdisk, the backup archive (i.e. the .adbimg file) contains a GPT partition table, and 12 partitions (of varying sizes) of type "Microsoft Basic Data". The largest of them is 11.5G; I'm guessing that's where the data I'm looking for are.
TIA
EDIT: If it's relevant, I use Linux and macOS, and I'm comfortable with the command line.
Look to the XDA forum for inspiration.
[GUIDE] How to extract, create or edit android adb backups
What is an android adb backup? An adb backup is a file with ab extension, generated by android's backup manager when we request it via adb shell. This allows you to backup some data of the phone, but is not a replacement of a clockworkmod backup...
forum.xda-developers.com
ze7zez said:
Look to the XDA forum for inspiration.
[GUIDE] How to extract, create or edit android adb backups
What is an android adb backup? An adb backup is a file with ab extension, generated by android's backup manager when we request it via adb shell. This allows you to backup some data of the phone, but is not a replacement of a clockworkmod backup...
forum.xda-developers.com
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I read that, thank you. But it's not the same, is it(?)
adb backup != adb pull
(...Or am I wrong?)
So my phone screen just went black and doesn't work anymore. I wanted to adb pull all files from my phone (everything takes up 17gb, so It wouldn't be a big deal to transfer everything and sort through it on my PC), but when I boot to TWRP via command line and try to decrypt the phone the fs is still encrypted, what am I doing wrong? Or maybe there's a better approach for this and I'm just stupid? (attached is my pattern drawn on a random png from google and the commands that I tried to use) Thanks in advance
AFAIK device's /data partition automatically is turned to an unencrypted state if you do a backup of this partition via the adb backup
Example:
Code:
adb devices
adb backup -shared -f C:\backupname.ab
You may use
android-backup-processor
Download android-backup-processor for free. Android adb backup extractor and packer. None
sourceforge.net
to convert the .TAR formatted backup into a .ZIP formatted file.
jwoegerbauer said:
AFAIK device's /data partition automatically is turned to an unencrypted state if you do a backup of this partition via the adb backup
Example:
Code:
adb devices
adb backup -shared -f C:\backupname.ab
You may use
android-backup-processor
Download android-backup-processor for free. Android adb backup extractor and packer. None
sourceforge.net
to convert the .TAR formatted backup into a .ZIP formatted file.
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It requires me to unlock the phone to do that. I think i'll just buy a USB C to USB A and HDMI dongle to view my phone screen on a monitor and operate it via a mouse. That seems like the easiest way out.
Thanks for the help, though!