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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6