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backup manager for android
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use tar based data backups instead of zip #143

Open treakiandroid opened 7 years ago

treakiandroid commented 7 years ago

i have aeen that you are using the zip format for backuping app data. As far as i know thereby the extended unix file attributes (like execute right) and special files like symlinks cant be stored. I would thing that this will get problematic while using apps who rely on that (like appa who are using binarys/symlinks in the data area (termux for example)). I am not willing to risk that for a test but as i have seen that other app backup apps like titaniumbackup are using tar based backups as whel you should consider switching to that to.

thanks in advance

sciamano commented 7 years ago

RTFM: zip has no problem to store symlinks and attributes!