how to backup apk

[saxd45]

have hero with ota 2.1

getting ready to root

how do i backup my apps?
actually all i care about is shapewriter

i have tried the whole adp pull.... but it tells me this everytime


C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb pull /data/app C:\Data\app
pull: building file list...
0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>


and when i use astro to look at my data/app folder there is nothing listed

 

[rynomite]

It's been so long since I wasn't rooted, I may be wrong here; but I would first see if this works. From Astro, hit menu -> tools -> Application Manger/Backup. Check off all the apps you wish to make a backup of and hit the button on the top-left labeled "backup". This will put a backup of each apk selected on your sdcard. Path will be /sdcard/Backups/apps/.

If this doesn't work, I would try rooting first and then either use adb to pull apk's or go to the market and get a program called rootexplorer to manually backup files from the data/app directory. Once rooted, all system directories will be accessible using rootexplorer.

Hope this helps.