How to backup apps and data before rooting?

[Guest naguz]

Hi,

While I originally intended to keep my Desire Stock, the amazing cheapness of HTC and the lack of internal storage has made me change my mind.

I have som apps with corrresponding data installed today, and I woukd like to keep this data. I have a nifty bash script from a user on xda that I used to pull apps and data off my Dream before wiping it, using adb pull. Do I have read access to the whole phone somewhere in the rooting process, after step 1 or step 2 t.ex? I am downloading the files now (baaad irror, being so slow while I am waiting impatiently :) )so I havent had a look at them yet, so I don't really know what they do.

As far as i have understood step1 loads some custom recover into memory, but what dies step2 do? And could I use adb pull to pull out files after one of these stepps.

As far as I have understood, it is possible to make a complete nandroid dump after step 2? If so, I could alwaysextract the needed files from the nandroid backup..

[Guest mieru]

Hi,

While I originally intended to keep my Desire Stock, the amazing cheapness of HTC and the lack of internal storage has made me change my mind.

I have som apps with corrresponding data installed today, and I woukd like to keep this data. I have a nifty bash script from a user on xda that I used to pull apps and data off my Dream before wiping it, using adb pull. Do I have read access to the whole phone somewhere in the rooting process, after step 1 or step 2 t.ex? I am downloading the files now (baaad irror, being so slow while I am waiting impatiently :rolleyes: )so I havent had a look at them yet, so I don't really know what they do.

As far as i have understood step1 loads some custom recover into memory, but what dies step2 do? And could I use adb pull to pull out files after one of these stepps.

As far as I have understood, it is possible to make a complete nandroid dump after step 2? If so, I could alwaysextract the needed files from the nandroid backup..

Hi

I've the same question. naguz, did you have backuped your data during the root process?

Thx and greetz

[Guest EddyOS]

You can backup the apps by getting 'app manager' from the market but it doesn't backup the data, though (I don't think)

[Guest mieru]

You can backup the apps by getting 'app manager' from the market but it doesn't backup the data, though (I don't think)

That's the point, i would backup the data... i have already MyBackupPro to backup the apps.

[Guest mieru]

Anybody an answer? Paul?

[Guest naguz]

I'll give it a shot this weekend. But I think it overwrites the datadir when it flashes testimg.zip (it contains a userdata.img-file).

However, according this, it is possible to backup the systemdir using busybox. If so, I would like to assume that it is possible to tar up the data dir too. However, I do believe the permissions would pose a problem, but then it should be a problem with the system partition too.

[Guest sruon]

Pretty sure Mybackpro backups data, at least it asks if you want to save .apk or datas or both when I do

[Guest naguz]

It has no acces to apps data.