Progress of GrapheneOS' own backup solution?

DefinitelyNotOCD

I have read on other threads that GrapheneOS is making their own backup solution rather than relying on Seedvault (which is pretty bad.)

I was wondering what the progress of this feature is? I have read that it's quite high priority?

I'm also hoping that if this does take a while longer that it may be made available to recently out-of-support devices to help them upgrade.

Tandara

It's postponed due to the difficulties with porting to the next major Android release. Even before that, it was not the first thing on the list. I give it 2 years to be implemented unless someone else contributes.

Geert

Tandara
Unfortunately it keeps getting postponed...
I have been waiting for a usable solution for years now. It keeps me from upgrading to a newer pixel.

Bimmy

Admittedly, after Seedvault appeared very unstable to me when I tried at first, in recent months (plus me changing my backup settings), my experience hast become more positive. Nonetheless, a better solution, assuming no significant drawbacks, is a nice perspective. So I had similar questions like you - and came to similar conclusions: Other issues probably demand much higher priority, atm.

In case someone acquainted with development of the future backup solution is reading this thread:
I was wondering if it has already been decided if that future solution should be backward compatible to existing Seedvault backup data?
Personally, I'd find it very useful if old backups could still be restored. Maybe you can already say something about that matter.

Thank you.

fid02

Bimmy Admittedly, after Seedvault appeared very unstable to me when I tried at first, in recent months (plus me changing my backup settings), my experience hast become more positive.

I feel the same. Fewer Seedvault backups now fail for me and it's slightly more reliable. I still feel that the UI should be reworked; options need to be more clearly explained.

Eirikr70

Geert I don't know what apps you want to backup but generally speaking there are inidividual solutions for most apps.

treenutz68

'soon'

Bimmy

treenutz68

Do you mean it the solution had been announced with that word? Or are you frustrated, because you need a better solution and hoped that it was already available today?

treenutz68

Bimmy

both.

this was from march of 2022:
"We're deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals."

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1507745283131781121