Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a future Android release

Re:Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a... by pyt on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:13PM (#19880601)

Google disabled backups for their Authenticator app so I don't think they will ever let you export the secrets.

I wrote an application to automate OTP secret extraction for just about every app out there after trying to migrate a few dozen tokens from Google Authenticator to AndOTP. You might find it useful: https://github.com/puddly/android-otp-extractor

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Re:Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a... by ganeshkrishnan on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:45PM (#19880925)

Dont you need root access to get the app private data?

I switched from Microsoft to Google because they advertised as having backup and now I am stuck with Google authenticator without any backup.

The only saving grace for Android was adb backup and restore but Google is shutting that down

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Re:Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a... by pyt on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:28PM (#19881921)

You do need root access, unfortunately. Even backing up the filesystem with `tar` is troublesome: https://github.com/dlenski/tetherback

I really hoped Google would have allowed some way to locally make full Android backups by now but I guess that's not compatible with their business model.

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