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Re:Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Androi... by wjbolles on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:17PM (#38157668)
Most app data you cannot back up easily without root anymore. I used to use Titanium but stuff stopped working consistently even with root.

Settings and some apps aside, I otherwise basically do this myself. I keep my last model phone as the fallback and use Syncthing to copy pictures, SMS and call log exports, TOTP exports, Signal backups, and any other useful files automatically to it. Contacts and everything else is cloud already. Would take about 10 minutes to reimport and start using.

Re:Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Androi... by dvngnt_ on Sunday November 05, 2023 @11:39PM (#38158915)
swift backup replaced it for me
Re:Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Androi... by rkagerer on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:15PM (#38173180)
Thanks - I haven't tried Swift Backup before. Does it work reasonably well when not tied to a Google account?