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Create backups of an Android device over USB (requires adb and TWRP recovery)
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Possibility of restoring from OTG? #23

Open pati610 opened 8 years ago

pati610 commented 8 years ago

Hi again Dan,

and thank you so much for you modding of your original script into feature/tetherback_extra_mount. I'm halfway through testing, and so far it works flawlessly!

Since the raw img of android_expand is going to be HUGE, I'm pondering the possibility to restore from OTG. Do you think it would be a viable option? My version of TWRP doesn't "see" the ext-card used as internal storage (introduced since 6.0). Thus, it's impossible for me to get the large image back to my combined internal + micro-sd memory.

My rudimental TWRP (the M8s is kind of lagging behind) recognizes OTG memory. Do you think the TWRP would be able to restore a raw image of the internally-configured ext card?

Another great thing would naturally be a "reversed tetherback", as mentioned in other threads. I saw that you've been working some on that. I do too, over here. If I get something going, I'll get back to you on that.

Thanks again, I really appreciate your kind effort.

dlenski commented 8 years ago

Hmmm. It seems like TWRP should be able to restore from OTG if it can see it, but unfortunately I don't have any way to test this myself since I don't have an OTG storage device handy.

The "right" solution from my point of view would be for me to actually get around to implementing an automated tetherrestore, as requested back in #5.

dlenski commented 8 years ago

Patches/pull requests to add tetherrestore are always welcome :-D