Backup Strategies for Rooted Phones

[Trees]

How are you backing up your phone? I'm still not comfortable with my approach and always have that subtle yet slightly uncomfortable feeling that I'm going to lose the phone, accidentally delete, or forget to copy a file for safekeeping.

So, with the above in mind I see four main strategies. I purposely left the details for each strategy undefined as an opportunity to open up the AC community views on what you think may fall under each category.

Backup From:
1. Internal SD Card

2. External SD Card

Backup To:
1. Cloud

2. Local Computer

3. Hybrid

4. None

 

[Aquila]

If we're talking about ROM backups, I keep the last two backups from Rom Manager on the device, along with a clean install which is redundantly kept on Google Drive. I've never tried downloading direct from Drive to phone phone though, so not sure if that's effective or not.

For apps/data/etc. I use the standard cloud sync services and use helium approximately once a week and store that file in Google Drive.

Photos, etc get backed up straight to G+ so I don't mess with that.

 

[Trees]

Ah, I forgot all about recovery backups. I have a similar strategy where backups go to the External SD card. This helped to highlight that a From and To is needed to further shape the strategy categories. Edited the OP by adding in that distinction.

 

[Tony Fong]

juz sharing

dropbox-dropsync - important stuffs.. music, photo, document... basically everything in my ext sd card.

foldersync-phone to ext-sd card.

CMW backup to my ext-sd card.

sms backup+ - call log, sms & whatsapp backup

gcloud - phonebook backup etc

and another must hv... titanium backup

roboform - password backup

cerberus - security set up.

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[Trees]

Nice, I can see these and what NothingIsTrue shared falling into the categories.

 

[VDub2174]

I only have one backup filed saved through recovery on my external sd card.

 

[Trees]

Sounds like a Nandroid for the one file and then everything else via cloud?

 

[VDub2174]

Sounds like a Nandroid for the one file and then everything else via cloud?

I also use MyBackup Pro for SMS and MMS.

Sent from my Paranoid Galaxy Note 2