search

jensstein / oandbackup

backup manager for android
Other
544 stars 193 forks source link

Backup to external SD ? #165

Closed repsorp closed 6 years ago

repsorp commented 7 years ago

Hi,

Is there any way to backup to an external SD with Android 7.1.2 ? When trying to I get the following error message: error

Thanks

wshanks commented 7 years ago

I had some different problems trying to back up to an external sd card. First, oandbackup complained about oandbackup.log being missing until I copied it to the directory on the sd card that I wanted to use. Then it didn't finish the backup. It created folders for each app that contained all of the app data rather than creating zip files. I think oandbackup copies all the data over in a folder and then zips the folder, so it seems like it was not able to zip the data on the sd card for some reason. I couldn't find an error message.

Finally, I tried switching back to using the default location for backups by deleting the path. Then it wouldn't remember my lists of apps for scheduled backups. I ended up reinstalling oandbackup at this point. Maybe I just needed to put the original oandbackup path back in explicitly instead of leaving it blank.

It would be great to be able to back up to an external sd card. One goal of backing up apps for me is to be able to recover from the phone dying, so having the data on a drive that can be moved to a new device is helpful.

ildar commented 7 years ago

Please provide your Android version and oandbackup version

wshanks commented 7 years ago

Android 7.1.2 (Lineage 14.1) and oandbackup 0.2.12.1 from F-Droid. Has backing up to an external SD card worked for you?

Edit: I see that #125 and #145 also describe problems with backing up to an external SD card.

ildar commented 7 years ago

No, I didn't see it working with external SD on LA14.1. Though I never tried hard, AFAIK there was the apk doing that.