Backup Tools

Google One’s backup list is true but footnoted: caps, opt-outs, expiry clocks, and a setup-only restore. How to audit what your backup really contains.

Message backups need dedicated tools and honest privacy handling. Tool comparison, a scheduled archive setup, and restore tests that include MMS media.

Seedvault is the built-in backup your custom ROM already ships. Setup, the recovery-word security model, restore testing, and what it cannot capture.

WhatsApp writes a local backup every night. How to find it, copy it completely (database plus media), and restore it on a new phone without Drive.

A 200-hour save deserves better than ‘the cloud, probably.’ Identify how each game stores progress and back up saves the manual, verifiable way.

Stop relying on memory: sync your phone’s key folders to your own hardware automatically, with versioning that turns sync into a real backup.

The open-source successor to the OAndBackupX idea. What Neo Backup captures with and without root, sane defaults, scheduling and safe restores.

Immich and PhotoPrism compared for self-hosted photo backup: deployment, uploads, migration from Google Photos, and the backup-of-the-backup rule.

Titanium Backup defined root backups — then development stopped while Android changed. A fair verdict for 2026 and the migration path off it.

Server-side encryption protects the provider, not you. A concrete client-side workflow for sealing backups before upload — and proving you can open them.