Anybody want to give me advice on how to back up everything important from an Android phone? Assume I have about… eight hours and somewhere in there I have to sleep.
I guess I'm using adb, but I barely know what I'm supposed to be grabbing, also neither adb pull nor the https://github.com/jb2170/better-adb-sync tool google says to use is like… y'know… doing anything…
Me: I would like to back up my files to my laptop
EVERY SINGLE PHONE, APP, OPERATING SYSTEM, APPLICATION, LITERALLY ANYTHING: Sure, just send the files to us over the Internet
Me: That is not what I said
SIGNAL/ELEMENT/PROBABLY BITCOIN, I WOULDN'T KNOW: You cannot trust cloud providers and remote "apps" with your data. The appropriate thing is to store your private keys on your phone, since that is a secure, personal device you carry with you at all times
A LITERAL ROCK: Hey check out this cool trick
@mcc I went through a lot of pain to figure out that I the answer was "use a time machine to root your device back before you put all those things you care about on it"
Which is just extremely upsetting
@jplebreton @mcc sorry if this comes off as "ackshually" but all of those have mechanisms for what you want:
- signal has chat backups, which you can opt for a shared folder/drive (cloud, syncthing, whatever)
- element lets you backup room e2e keys, and recommends putting your security key somewhere safe (not on the same device)
- most reputable crypto wallets have a seed phrase to generate/recover your assets, and also recommend keeping that in a safe separate place
@xyhhx @jplebreton yeah in context part of the problem is "can i do this without a screen?" (answer: it's ok to not have a screen because there is scrcpy)
also I am going to Yu Gi Oh Trap Card you here with the ultimate Well Akshually: The signal backup feature only works on Android
(I have an Android)
@mcc like you have no sessions on desktop/web that has those keys?
if on mobile are u on element x or the old element?
@xyhhx I don't understand the question. I have an Android phone, a desktop computer, a USB-C cable and I am trying to extract a backup of my Element keys (doesn't need to be / shouldn't be messages, just keys) onto the desktop computer, which I can then push back to a different phone later. Because I'm about to wipe this phone for Reasons.
I do not know what "element x" is. There is an app named "Element" on my phone.
@mcc element x is the new matrix app that's supposed to replace element:
https://element.io/labs/element-x
on the usual element for android:
tap your avatar, tap the cog, go to security & privacy, then export e2e room keys
you can use syncthing or your usb to transfer to your laptop
@mcc with the Paranoid Hat on: ah, but you see, allowing an easy way to dump all conversations and secrets off a user's device (even if unlocked) is *exactly* what forensics tools like Cellebrite want to do, and protecting users against that sort of thing is important, and actually theres a difficult tradeoff here betw
with the Normal Hat on: however, there are generally more rocks than feds
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