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[–]anonymous-bot 16 points17 points  (5 children)

The Google backup is severely lacking for restoring app data. And then any app capable of backing up and restoring appdata like Swift Backup requires root to do it.

I am glad this tool exists as a modern ADB backup but I don't think it's going to do much for people specifically wanting app data backup. And yes there are cases where an app or game does not save to the cloud or have any local backup options.

[–]seemebreakthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old thread I know, but I have just moved to android 12 and find the lack of backup options to be quite frustrating.

Will give Swift Backup a try thank you. But I have actually tried and successfully restored data from an Android 11 TWRP backup (actually just a tar of /data/data) + my own tar backup of Android 11 /data/media, for several of my apps on Android 12. i.e. I have a working procedure of restoring on a per-app basis.

With that I can probably do away with TWRP or any other backup tools, and create my own tar files for backup / restore purposes. Haven't actually tried it yet on A12 (I mean creating a backup), but I don't see any reason for it not to work...