12/02/2012

Android backup using rsync

Today I finally implemented a backup solution for my Android phone after regretting not having done any backups multiple times now.

I'm running Cyanogenmod 7 (Android 2.3.7) with root access, but I'm pretty sure the method should work without root privileges on a conventional Android distribution of pretty much any version. Although, there may be tools missing. Please report if you find out that's the case. (Tools used are: dropbearkey, ssh, rsync, vi, chmod)