Backup and Restoration

d9780

How do I take a backup snap shot of my entire Graphene pixel and save it in case I lose my phone? Where and how do I store the backup?

It was soooo easy w Google to have a new phone set up in no time just like your old one if you ever lost access to it. It is one of the things that makes me nervous about switching to graphene

bayesian

Imagine how much data and information Google had on you to be able to do that...

Aside that, you can search the forum for "backup" and you'll find some nice threads about that.
I would recommend this reply from @MetropleX https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/15-how-do-i-backup-my-phone/11

use individual apps internal backup/export tools as found in Signal, Aegis, KeepassDX, Feeder etc export Contacts, Calendar etc (ie as can be done in stock and SimpleMobileTools apps) and backup internal storage to a USB Drive for all your profiles

matchboxbananasynergy

GrapheneOS currently provides Seedvault as a backup solution, but it's not very reliable. The manual way of exporting app data and backing that up that @bayesian mentions above is much more work and not a perfect solution, but much more reliable.

The plan is to create a new backup solution for GrapheneOS from scratch that will be very powerful, including device-to-device backups among other things. It's planned.

klausthefish

matchboxbananasynergy Do you know when this going to be released?
Did they just start working on it or have thy been working on it for a while?

LefoDpct

matchboxbananasynergy The plan is to create a new backup solution for GrapheneOS from scratch that will be very powerful, including device-to-device backups among other things. It's planned.
It's badly needed. Specifically, the user should be able to do the following:
Cretate a nackup of a specific profile, where the backup is one single, encrypted file that can then be stored completely independent of the phone or the attacked USB where it was written to. Following tat, a profile could be deleted from the device with full confidence that none of the data that belonged to the profile can be restored by an adversary.
Further to that, it should be possible to take the encrypted backup file by, for instance downloding it from the 'net, write it to any removable USB drive, connect it to the phone which dad the profile with the same name created and restore the data that belongs to that profile with fill confidence that the profile is fully operattionnal just as it was before that backup was created.
And, btw, the "12-word" nonsense password should be abandoned: he who does not know how to create and secure good passphrase does not really benefit from secure platform such as GrapheneOS.

ve3jlg

matchboxbananasynergy It's planned.

This has been said so many times for so long that it lacks any meaning.

GrapheneOS is badly lacking in backup functionality, as you wrote.

matchboxbananasynergy

klausthefish I don't have any specific info on this, I'm afraid. I just know that it is planned.

unplowed949

Hi, I checked the backup size of the hidden files in the USB Stick on my mac. The size was in total approx 19GB. I checked all options for Backup. My Pixel is almost full with 100GB. How can it be that the Backup file is so small? Thanks for feedback!

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Murcielago

Even if it's more effort, I'm a fan of setting up the phone completely from scratch - especially as long as there is no reliable backup solution for GrapheneOS.

I make regular backups of individual apps (e.g. Messenger chat histories) and I have created a document with screenshots where I have noted a list of the installed apps or the arrangement of the quick toggles, for example - so that I don't have to completely start from scratch.

flighty_sloth

ve3jlg I feel like it holds the exact same meaning as when it was first said, since those words don't imply any time frame.