cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52720355

I am using neo backup often i run into storage issues so i am wondering if there is a possibility of backing data with git, root, Termux, Tasker .

Edit: solved some issues

  • storage issue was fixed by not enabling unnecessary backup options. It created massive difference for most applications, eg anki was over 1 GB, now its 9 KB.
  • Some application’s backups were not working( After restoring applications were crashing), for them, rather than backing up whole data, we can copy relevant data. Eg for element, we can backup by

cp /data/data/im.vector.app/shared_prefs/im.vector.app_preferences.xml %ConfigBackupLocation/element

  • Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Git is not very good with binary data. It does not generate diffs for it, it just copies the new version for every change. The git directory can become very big very fast.

  • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    Your storage issues will be even worse with Git because of the type of format the app data will be stored in. Idk what your use case is but maybe you can look at carrying a portable USB type-C stick that you can plug in any time.