So, I managed to use shadowexplorer to find a restore point of an adb backup restore file. (I accidentally deleted it) I found it and exported it. The weird part is that when I go to restore it to my phone, I enter the correct encrypted password and it doesn't work?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
You could try to extract it as you suggest here
File encrypted! How can I open it!! HELP!!
I see, but how come when I load up a bruteforce program (passfab for rar as an example), it doesn't detect it as an encrypted file? Like, sometimes it doesn't even show up visibly in my directory as a usable file. I get what you're saying, but...
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Here is one extractor that supports password.
GitHub - nelenkov/android-backup-extractor: Android backup extractor
Android backup extractor. Contribute to nelenkov/android-backup-extractor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Lots of info here about the backup.
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hey guys,
I have made a nandroid backup of my nexus 7 (2012) and I need to get access to contents of the data partition without actually applying the nandroid backup to the device. I found this "unyaffs" tool, but it requires .img files if I understood it correctly. However, in my nandroid backup directory, I have a couple of files that end in ".win" or ".win000" etc (along with corresponding md5-files)...these must be image files of some sort I guess, but Windows describes them as "Adobe CMS Extensions" for some reason.
So...anyone knows how I can access this data? Any help appreciated!
cheers
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Very simply, how do I browse and extract the contents of a TWRP Nandroid backup on my Windows PC?
I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.
kwest12 said:
Very simply, how do I browse and extract the contents of a TWRP Nandroid backup on my Windows PC?
I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.
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Simply rename the file to data.ext4.tar and use winrar to extract it.
I'm revamping this thread because I'm...desperate!
I have a nandroid backup (TWRP 2.8.7.0) and I would like to browse it on my PC. I'm focusing on files with structure data.ext4.win000x (where x goes from 0 to 2).
I'm able to open with 7-zip (should be equivalent to winrar) every individual file but size is faulty: every file is nearly 1.5 Gb while the content of the zipped file that I see it's around 50 kb. If I concatenate the files with the command copy /b data.ext4.win000? outputfile regardless the extension I give to "outputfile" I'm no longer able to open it with 7-zip.
Any suggestion/hint please ????
Not finding entire folders/files while browsing backup
I find the same thing regardless of the mechanism I am using to browse the backup. I am looking in /data/data for my own apps' data. Here is what I have tried so far:
1. Nandroid Manager app
2. TWRP Explorer app
3. ZArchive app
4. In a terminal, cat data.ext4.win??? | tar -tv > less (and then searching for my apps' package names
I was looking inside my nightly full backup to extract and recover some files I accidentally deleted. Cannot even find folders for the package names (except for 1 app). However, when I do a full restore from the same backup inside of TWRP Recovery, the missing files are indeed restored. So I know they are in the backup.
Why can I not find them and get at them any way else? I must be missing something simple.
Thanks
BTW - in the recovery.log file in the backup folder, I see the folders/files in question being "added". Very odd.
BTW2 - at least with regards Nandroid Manager app, I noticed that I was seeing some files I know I had removed from my apps some time ago. How could that be? I decided to clear data/cache for Nandroid manager and try again. It took much longer to process the backup for exploring. But now at least that app seems to be doing the right thing and I can see all folders/files.
Hey Users,
I recently reinstalled Windows 11, and before that, I did a full image backup using Macrium Reflect of my drives (C and D, and I want to copy only certain files to my C drive, I started with some random files, and then wanted to copy the User folder, but I want to explain, that I can't just restore the entire backup because:
1. The system that I installed is Windows 11 22H2 and the system in in the backup is a different version of Windows 11.
2. The system in the backup is partially corrupted (but just the system files which I don't want to copy)
I tried copying different folder in the folder, but some files were not copied for unknown reasons, and I can't get them to copy! Also there where some errors like "This file can not be accessed by the system"!
I even tried using RoboCopy and a lot of files were skipped!
Please tell me how do I copy them!!
Please help!
Edit: I mounted the image as a drive in order to try to copy.
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...
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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
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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!