Multiple backups on one usb device

oez

Hi all, unfortunately my pixel 7's camera glass has just shattered. I want to back up all my data and apps before taking it in to get repaired, but I ran into a snag. I managed to back up my main profile and tested restoring from said backup on a new profile which seemed to work.

However, when I go to another user I can select the same usb drive but the option to begin a back up is greyed out. Forgive me if it's covered somewhere but is it not possible to back up more than one profile on a usb drive or am I doing something wrong?

If it's not possible, could I partition the drive and backup each profile on a separate partition instead?

unwat

oez If it's not possible, could I partition the drive and backup each profile on a separate partition instead?

That's probably what you'd have to do. As far as I know, Seedvault always stores backups at the root of whichever volume it's backing up to to a folder called .SeedVaultAndroidBackup, so backing up to the same place probably won't work.

JayJay

oez

This happened to me also.
So I generated new keys for backup, still greyed. I thought perhaps I also changed the main profile keys, so I wanted to switch back the profile to verify both phrases on the Main profile but when I switched back profile I could see seedvault starting the backup process but got stuck halfways for some reason.

Changing the keys on second profile did not affect Main profile as I could verify Main still with old key.

I then switched back again profiles to the second profile that was supposed to be backed up and the button went from being greyed and completed. However I have had no ways of verifying the backup.

lemonadehabitat

Have you tried unplugging the drive and plugging in again? I have been backing up different profiles just fine. Different profiles cannot share the drive at the same time, so only the profile during plug in can see it.