[OpenIndiana-discuss] backuping android smartphone contents on openindiana

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Hello.

Perhaps you may consider syncthing or icloud.There are comprehensive 
articles on these solutions.

Regards


Robert Jones

On 08/01/2026 18:54, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> Hi Marc
>
> That is unfortunately a halicination. We do not have an adb binary 
> from any android sdk. We probably also lack many dependencies.
>
> If you can get mpd working you can backup some files but android is 
> very limted in backup. Your best bets is a Backup App on the phone 
> writing to an SMB share or fully switching your important stuff to 
> nextcloud and hosting that on your OpenIndiana NAS.
>
> Other than that I am not aware of any good Android Backups strategy
>
> -Till
>
> On 1/8/26 15:48, Marc Lobelle via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to transfer the contents (selected files or directories) 
>> of my android phone (A blackview 7200) to openindiana. Chatgpt 
>> recommends using adb and claims it to be included  in a package 
>> called android--tools.
>>
>> Does one of you know where to find it or can propose another solution ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
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