Fwiw, I make periodic backups of my android phone. It is in developer
mode, and I used adb pull -a to create a local archive, then use rsync
with --link-dest to may an "incremental" snapshot (sharing copies
through hardlinks).
From memory, something like:
$ adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
<mydevice>
$ adb pull -a /sdcard rss-phone-tmp/
/sdcard/: 10339 files pulled, 0 skipped. 37.2 MB/s (41966631399 bytes in
1075.755s)
$ rsync -v -a -H --link-dest=../rss-phone-last/ rss-phone-tmp/
rss-phone-newest/
$ rm -rf rss-phone-tmp
where "last" and "newest" are timestamp strings.
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Russell Senior
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On 7/31/26 21:04, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 7/31/26 19:34, Nat Taylor wrote:
I also just use an SSH server on my Linux box and use either Termius,
AndFTP, or ncftp in Termux to connect to it. I usually use Termius
My need was to transfer two photos. I solved it by emailing them to
myself.
Most of the recommendations involved things I don't find on my phone.
Thanks to all for your efforts.
