![]() ![]() The /system partition, according to this page:Ĭontains the entire operating system, other than the kernel and the ramdisk. If you want to do a complete backup you need to be rooted. I'm glad to hear running it with the -nosystem flag worked out for you :) The adb backup command won't work fully on an unrooted device as it will attempt to backup things like the /system partition, and without root access the phone will deny you this for safety reasons. ![]() and/or is that the wrong set of command line arguments? How long should I wait, if I estimate I'm using about 10GB of the 32GB of space?Įdit. What should I see (on the PC and on the phone) when the backup process completes? On the phone, it was still flipping through filenames.Īt some point, it stopped flipping through filenames but the back up selection buttons were still greyed out.Ĭ:\mybackup.ab existed, and was about 1GB in size, which is significantly smaller than I thought it should be, especially since I said to back up the apk files and the whole "shared" space (/mnt/sdcard). I let it run for several minutes, and the cmd window returned to C: prompt. My phone prompted me for my password, which I entered, and clicked the button to begin the backup. I used this command on a Windows 7 command line:Īdb backup -apk -shared -all -f c:\mybackup.ab Possibly in preparation for rooting, but that's not really relevant to the question. I have a non-rooted Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and I wanted to try the "adb backup" feature. ![]()
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