Backup and restore using ubports-installer

[mihael]

I find it very userul! Thank you! And a question: can this be used to migrate data from one phone to another, maybe even between different types of UT phones?

[AlainW94]

@mihael Thanks ! I already use this method to backup a Meizu Pro5 to another Meizu Pro5, but I can't try it with a different model as I didn't have other model.
I don't know if a system backup can work on a different phone model.

[AlainW94]

@Lakotaubp Thanks !

[A Former User]

Great work! Thanks @AlainW94

[AlainW94]

Thanks @3arn0wl !

[Lakotaubp]

@AlainW94 Is this available now for all models, it's not showing yet for OPO on 0.4.11 beta

[lool_lauris]

HI,
An this backup option will accept any phone in its factory setting ?

[AlainW94]

@Lakotaubp Not yet, I have to cleanup my code before to push it, and I only tried it on Meuzu Pro 5

[AlainW94]

@lool_lauris Only working with UbPorts phones, I tried it with a Meizu Pro5 on Android and it's not working.

[lool_lauris]

@AlainW94 said in Backup and restore using ubports-installer:

@lool_lauris Only working with UbPorts phones, I tried it with a Meizu Pro5 on Android and it's not working.

When I was asking about any phone, I was meaning the available phones for UT, of course.

[AlainW94]

@lool_lauris And this is also why I asked if everybody had the folders "user-data" and "system-data" on their devices while in recovery mode, because this folder will be the one to be backing up.

[Lakotaubp]

@AlainW94 My fault being to keen and not reading properly. Will check other stuff.

[kugiigi]

Does this work while the phone is booted normally or in recovery/bootloader mode?
Looks cool, has it been merged already?

[AlainW94]

@kugiigi It will work only on recovery, because it need to read or write system data. It is not merged yet, I will do it asap.

[kugiigi]

@AlainW94 It writes? may I know for what?
Anyway, I just thought I can use it for backing up/restoring my MultiROM UT installs
Good luck with this

[AppLee]

@kugiigi Backup AND RESTORE so yes, write

[AlainW94]

@kugiigi Yes it write if you restore a backup ! The backup tool will backup the content of 2 folders : /data/user-data and /data/system-data.
If you open a shell on the recovery, and type

ls /data

And if you can see in there the previouly named folders, then the backup tool will be able to backup this file on your multirom device.

[kugiigi]

Of course, restoring will write data....what a stupid question from me
I'll check this functionality once it's merged in the app.
Thanks.

[Lakotaubp]

@AlainW94 Like this ?
SWAP.img android-data system-data system.img ubuntu.img user-data

[AlainW94]

@Lakotaubp Yes perfect ! what device is this ?