UT data migration to Nexus 6P

circ

I'm working on upgrading from an N5 to a 6P from @Flohack's recommendations here.

Given current ADB status, I'm worried about my tar -x in a live UT on the target. Any thoughts on this flow before I break something?

# SOURCE DEVICE (N5)
adb root
adb reboot recovery
adb shell
tar -czpv -f /system-data.tgz /data/system-data/ >/system-data.out 2>/system
-data.er && \
tar -czpv -f /user-data.tgz /data/user-data/ >/user-data.out 2>/user-data.er

# TARGET DEVICE (N6p)
# adb shell not possible on N6p
# only shell is through sshd on running UT
scp ./system-data.tgz n6:
scp ./user-data.tgz n6:
ssh n6 
tar -xzv -f ./system-data.tgz # YIKES?!
tar -xzv -f ./user-data.tgz # YIKES ?!

kugiigi

@circ I can't comment much on your scripts but I think user-data is enough for transferring your files. When I restore my data, I don't do the full user-data but instead just the .local, and .config and those things work fine restoring in live sesssion.

circ

@kugiigi said in UT data migration to Nexus 6P:

just the .local, and .config and those things work fine restoring in live sesssion.

thanks @kugiigi, that's good to know.

Flohack

I would recommend to tar up user-data and system-data in recovery, then adb pull that stuff, drop it into the new device and unpack it there (after removing both folders that were there to avoid merges).