Best way to backup a non-rooted device?

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  • Seedvault

    A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.

    There's no entirely satisfactory way to back up a typical, non-rooted Android phone. The ideal is something like Seedvault, but it has to be baked into the OS. OAndBackup / OAndBackupX / Neo Backup is a classic solution, but it requires root. The Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool has, or at least used to have, some sort of backup and restore functionality, but my impression is that it's not entirely reliable, and certainly not well documented. It is possible to backup from a custom recovery such as TWRP, but this can be tricky as well.

  • Neo-Backup

    backup manager for android

    There's no entirely satisfactory way to back up a typical, non-rooted Android phone. The ideal is something like Seedvault, but it has to be baked into the OS. OAndBackup / OAndBackupX / Neo Backup is a classic solution, but it requires root. The Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool has, or at least used to have, some sort of backup and restore functionality, but my impression is that it's not entirely reliable, and certainly not well documented. It is possible to backup from a custom recovery such as TWRP, but this can be tricky as well.

  • InfluxDB

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