Backup and restore (TWRP-style)

GooglyBear

What do Ubuntu Touch users choose if they want a simple and reliable way to backup and restore their phone, preserving the exact state of the OS so that they can 'roll back' if necessary (eg. bricked phone)?

I haven't really seen a satisfying post about this, so I thought I might as well start the conversation: I'm happy to experiment with different tools and report my findings here as this is a very important feature to me.

Moem

@GooglyBear I don't know how TWRP does it.
I would do the following:

copy the entire home directory to the Downloads directory
use a cable to transfer that copied home directory to my laptop
if I need to restore, use the cable again to transfer it to the phone. I've not tried that part, I think.

So I'm not sure yet on how to restore but I do know how to backup. Halfway there?

Charly

Hello forum,
before 24.04 noble I always mounted a USB stick in my cell phone and synchronized the folder /home/phablet to the USB stick using:

rsync -rtvP --delete --modify-window=5 --delete /home/phablet/ /media/phablet/STICK/phablet/

or

rsync aP --delete /home/phablet/ /media/STICK/phablet

Unfortunately this doesn't work with 24.04 because rsync has been removed from ubuntu touch.

Best regards
Charly