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Google adds the ability to automatically store & manage device backups through Google One (via subscription)
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:51:55 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:
Google One app Can someone who cares about backups let us know how well this new feature works for you - where I've been doing all my full backups to Linux (for iOS) and to Windows 10 (for Android) over USB and WiFi. Apparently the new automatic full backup will restore an existing phone o And it will apparently fully populate a brand new Android phone "To begin with the new experience, all you need is to subscribe to the Google One membership and install the Google One app on your Android device. The app has the Device Backup option that you need to turn on to begin automatic phone backups." "The new feature is notably available to all Google One members in the subscription. This means if you have other family members in your subscription, they'll also be able to avail the automatic phone backup on their devices." "Google One comes with the ability to share your storage with up to five family members and each Google One plan can be used for storing content from Gmail and Google Photos in addition to a regular cloud storage access for storing usual stuff, such as documents, photos, and videos" Personally, I do my own backups on both iOS (using Linux) & Android (using Windows). Backing up all my data on Android is trivial compared to iOS, which is why I use Linux for iOS, since Apple restricts what you can back up on Windows without using the iTunes abomination, which even Apple (thank God) finally deprecated recently. The problem with the iOS cloud backup is that the free storage is infitesimally puny (only 5GB of basic storage - where you have to play all sorts of silly games to get more than that which most people don't bother with since it's more complicated than it needs to be for something so simple). The problem is similar, just not as bad, with Google cloud backup since you get three times the free basic storage with a Google Account on your Android phone. While Apple FORCES you to have an account (where they tag every app you download with that account - even free apps - and where Apple forces you to have an advertiser ID, etc.), at least Android phones work perfectly fine sans a Google Account (where apps aren't tagged - and there is no advertiser ID, etc.). Given I don't have a Google account on any of my Android phones, I'll never test out this new supposedly "automatic" full backup. But many others DO have a Google account - and they might want to test out this reputedly new full automatic backup feature on Android phones. Here are some references: o Back up or restore data on your Android device https://support.google.com/android/answer/2819582 o Manage & restore your device backups in Google Drive https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6305834?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid o XDA: Google One can now backup and restore your photos, videos, and MMS https://www.xda-developers.com/google-one-backup-restore-photos-videos-mms/ o AndroidPolice: Google One subscribers receiving automatic Android backup with broad content support https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/09/13/google-one-android-backup/ o BeeBom: Google One Now Has Automatic Phone Backups for Android https://beebom.com/google-one-automatic-phone-backups-android/ o BGR: Google One now supports automatic backup for Android smartphones https://www.bgr.in/news/google-one-now-supports-automatic-backup-for-android-smartphones/ o MEMEBurn: You can now back up your Android phone from the Google One app https://memeburn.com/2019/09/google-one-android-backups/ Apparently: o You use the "Google One" cloud storage service o You need the "Google One" app running on Android o The backup will be "full" & "automatic" While you already get 15GB of free "Google Cloud" storage, that's puny compared to the storage on modern cellphones, where Google One provides between 100GB & 3TB of cloud storage. Can someone who cares about backups let us know how well this new feature works to automatically back up and restore an old phone back to an old phone or to a brand new phone? |
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Google adds the ability to automatically store & manage devicebackups through Google One (via subscription)
On 16/09/2019 18.58, Arlen Holder wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:51:55 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: Google One app Can someone who cares about backups let us know how well this new feature works for you - where I've been doing all my full backups to Linux (for iOS) and to Windows 10 (for Android) over USB and WiFi. This is not related at all to Linux or Windows. Please drop those groups from the thread. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Google adds the ability to automatically store & manage device backups through Google One (via subscription)
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:10:06 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
This is not related at all to Linux or Windows. Please drop those groups from the thread. Hi Carlos, This topic _is_ very tightly related to Linux _and_ Windows, in that the _only_ way to back up and restore all of your iOS data without using the iTunes abomination (which even Apple deprecated) or the ridiculously puny iCloud free storage (which doesn't handle all your data), is to use Linux (Windows does NOT have the required drivers, AFAIK). I repeat: Windows does NOT have the required drivers; only Linux does. And, while Linux will work to back up Android, almost anything will work to back up Android, where Windows works just fine sans any proprietary software abomination, using standard MTP over USB (or FTP over NetBIOS). I repeat: Windows handles full Android backup & restore over USB or WiFi. However, it's fair enough to say that all Windows users and all Linux users likely already know how to fully back up and restore their Android devices to either Windows or Linux. While the necessary drives to read the entire visible file system on iOS are native on Linux (at least on Ubuntu they are), almost nobody knows how to to WRITE BACK to the iOS file system from Linux, to restore the backup. Nonetheless, this is my last post to the linux & iOS newsgroup on this thread, in keeping with your stated wishes. F'up set to comp.mobile.android as per your wishes. |
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Google adds the ability to automatically store & managedevice backups through Google One (via subscription)
Arlen Holder wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:10:06 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: This is not related at all to Linux or Windows. Please drop those groups from the thread. Hi Carlos, This topic _is_ very tightly related to Linux _and_ Windows, in that the _only_ way to back up and restore all of your iOS data without using the iTunes abomination (which even Apple deprecated) or the ridiculously puny iCloud free storage (which doesn't handle all your data), is to use Linux (Windows does NOT have the required drivers, AFAIK). No dilbert dumbass, iTunes is not required to backup an iPhone/ipad. I don’t even run iTunes and do it just fine. -- Lloyd |
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