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https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-source-backup-solution/ https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-sour... >LineageOS adop

by summm 5y ago

https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-source-backup-solution/ https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-sour... >LineageOS adopts SeedVault as its open source backup solution [...] >For those not familiar with SeedVault, it is an open-source backup app that uses the same internal APIs as adb backup. I hope the SeedVault people are able to circumvent that. And I hope they are willing to try, as some open source developers for some reason consider Google's user-hostile security model decisions as sacrosanct.

bserge 5y ago
Since this is LineageOS, I assume everyone is running a custom recovery. Why not use Nand backups then? I just wonder because that's all I ever used. Just straight up bypasses any BS the OS would throw... on the same device at least.
- summm 5y ago
  The advantage of app backup is that you can restore the apps to other devices. And you can selectively backup and restore subsets of apps. Nand backups do not offer that. Furthermore your assumption might not be true in the first place: LineageOS brings its own default recovery that offers more convenient OTA updates, but does not offer Nand backups. Also, "custom" recoveries such as TWRP might not even support some phones that are supported by LineageOS.
  - bserge 5y ago
    Yeah, I figured. I think I tried "normal" backups a few times with garbage results and gave up on it. Just straight up reinstall everything on new machines or major OS version updates like I've been doing for nearly two decades. Good time to reconsider a lot of apps, too.