How to backup the data partition¶

• Table of contents
• How to backup the data partition
  • /!\ Warning: Draft
  • What does the data partition contains?
  • Howto
    • • Galaxy S III (GY-I9300)
  • See also

/!\ Warning: Draft¶

This article is in draft form and is being written:

• Everybody is welcome to contribute
• Some things might not be accurate yet, so beware before using the information contained in it.

Also a big part of this article is copied from BackupTheEFS, it would be better to find a way to include content instead.

What does the data partition contains?¶

See DataPartition for more details.

Howto¶

TODO:

• Link to the EFS backup first part

Galaxy S III (GY-I9300)¶

First, you need to make sure that the data partition is not mounted.

To do that, you can run this command:

adb shell "umount -l /data" 

If the /data partition was mounted, it will unmount it. This will look like that:

$ adb shell "umount -l /data" 
$ 

If it was not mounted, it will instead show an error that we can ignore:

$ adb shell "umount -l /data" 
umount: /data: Invalid argument

Once this is taken care of, we can backup the partition with the following command:

adb pull /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name/USERDATA ./

See also¶

• The BackupsResearch page has information on why the backup is done this way. It might also be useful to read and contribute to it if you intend to change the way the backups are done.