On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:21:34AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Dear All,
My apologies for OT question.
I wonder if someone of Android smartphone owners backs up their device and user/application data NOT to google cloud.
I'm not sure if you would get all data, but wouldn't something like mounting the phone with simple-mtpfs and then rsyncing it to a directory on your machine (then moving it elsewhere if desired) serve the purpose. Actually, I think even if you back it all up to the cloud, if you have to restore, there will always be something missing.
For example, I recently got a phone running Android 9 and though it had copied some custom ringtones, it didn't see them. I had to re-encode them specifying a bitrate to get it working.
Whether Apple or Google, they seem to make it harder to keep control over your device with each iteration. I think it was Corey Doctorow who once wrote something like, No one ever woke up and said, Gee I hope there's an iTunes update that will let me do less with my device.
But I digress. Assuming this is all data which can be seen by a computer, something like simple-mtpfs would let you copy it all to your hard drive.