[Replicant] How to back up contacts, apps, f-droid DB, app data, files etc.?

[Josh Branning]

On 13/09/15 19:48, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 septembre 2015 à 19:14 +0100, Josh Branning a écrit :
>> On 13/09/15 18:25, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
>>> Le dimanche 13 septembre 2015 à 18:06 +0100, Josh Branning a écrit :
>>>> I'm thinking of upgrading Replicant on my Nexus S, but I don't want to
>>>> lose all my data in the process.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to back up the necessary stuff so that upgrades are as
>>>> painless as possible?
>>>
>>> Well, if you're updating to the same major version (e.g. 4.2 0002 to 4.2
>>> 0003), the diff is so small that you can simply follow the installation
>>> procedure and skip that last step (wipe data) that removes application
>>> data.
>>>
>>> This is not always a good idea though, but in this particular case, it
>>> should work nicely.
>>
>> I guess also it would be good to have something for this for the next
>> major version (whenever that may be), else I would not feel so inclined
>> to upgrade to a newer system. I'm sure there are apps for things like
>> this, but it may also perhaps be done using adb and knowing what to back up.
>
> Well, it's not advised to do this. When moving to a newer major
> Replicant version, /data will *need* to be cleared. One can however keep
> the data of some applications (in /data/data) manually or using some
> applications, but that's totally up to the user.
>

I guess this is enough. I only really use applications from f-droid 
anyway, so I guess they can be reinstalled manually. I think 
/data/data/... is where the contacts database is stored, which tbh is 
the main priority (for me) when upgrading.

Many thanks again,


Josh