Add important notes about packing tar archives

nelenkov / android-backup-extractor

Android backup extractor

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Add important notes about packing tar archives #38

Closed jomo closed 9 years ago

jomo commented 9 years ago

I hope this makes sure people notice android is crazy about it, and hopefully save people a few hours of research why their backup is not restored. (see for example #37)

nelenkov commented 9 years ago

Thanks!

smarek commented 6 years ago

Looking at your notes and my debug env could we maybe modify "pack" command to take known folders and files into account in specific order?

Notes from me:

always start with _manifest file
then folders in order a-r-f-db-sp-obb (see https://android.stackexchange.com/a/23608/9035)

nelenkov commented 6 years ago

IIRC, the tool only packs the tar files you give it, so can't do that without implementing the tar-ing logic.