Backup Android using rsync
You can backup android phone/tabled (device) with rsync installed on some host and SimpleSSHD installed on device.
First you have to check if you can ssh to device:
To login first time You have to run SimpleSSHD and press START to run it in foreground. From some host login to device using command:
sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.241 -p 2222
enter password displayed in SimpleSSHD windows on device, you will see something like this:
no authorized_keys, generating single-use password -------- yrGAex8s --------
As you can see my device has address 192.168.1.241 and server is using his default port 2222. You don't have to provide any user name (ie. -l someuser).
Now you can backup device manually using rsync:
rsync --update -e 'ssh -p 2222' -azv \ 192.168.1.241:/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/ /data/myPhoneBackup/
Another approach is to use Rsync Wrapper by Letscorp (I didn't tested it yet).
The main target is to make android device be able to backup using BackupPC.
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