TaBackup & EasyKernel Backup and Restore

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Since we have a lot of users here with no real means of doing automated proper backups of their tabs outside of ClockworkMod, or manual backups using RotoBackup, I've decided to release my implementation of a backup routine to XDA.

It's based upon RotoBackup and thus requires full SU access on your Tab.
It also requires Heimdall and ADB to be working if you wish to restore a backup fully.
The routine currently only supports RFS filesystems, EXT4 support may be added later!

I have tested this as much as I can, and I do hope that it works for everyone who tries it.

It is windows only, however if someone wishes to redo the script as a shell script feel free!

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Down to the attachments.

TaBackup.zip
- TaBackup.cmd : Full tab backup and restore script
- KernelBackup.cmd : Kernel backup and restore script

GTab-Heimdall_1.1.1.7z
- WORKING Heimdall 1.1.1 which is required if you wish to RESTORE
- WORKING USB drivers for DOWNLOAD MODE, required for Heimdall

Both freely available from https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall

Extract the zip to a directory, preferred directories are;
C:\GalaxyTab\Backups for TaBackup.cmd
C:\GalaxyTab\KernelBackup for KernelBackup.cmd

You _can_ change these defaults by editing the script and changing line 8

You need ADB WORKING, either from the same directory as TaBackup, or from your system PATH

Due to the hasty modification of TaBackup last night to create KernelBackup, there is legacy code floating around which requires heimdall.exe to be present in the same directory as the backups... I may change this at a later date.

It IS possible to have both backup locations the same, e.g. C:\TaBackup
with both scripts in that directory, with Heimdall. You just have to remember which backup directory is just a kernel backup only.

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Good luck, and happy hunting!

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Changelogs:

TaBackup 0.5

First public release
Various logic fixes
Idiotic spelling mistake which prevented a restore!

KernelBackup 0.1

First public release

Reserved for Future Use

Perfect - will try!

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Thanks! This saved me from creating a script myself. I am anal about backups so this is perfect. So far I have only tested the standard backup (it's running as I type this and then will test the Kernel as well. One thing to note, the script requires that you adb installed / path defined in your system variables. Originally it would not work for me as I continued to get unknown command. I have successfully used adb commands to execute the backup before, but only executed it straight from the directory where I had adb installed. Once I added the path to adb in my system variables then it worked great.

Ah yes, ADB pathing :|

I may try and do some rudimentary checks in the scripts for ADB

You said ext4 not supported, does this mean that if right now I back up while using rfs and I convert to ext4 I will not be able to restore my backup that was made on rfs? Or only that it won't backup and restore ext4

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