Canonical System Image

Backup support for userdata/apps and online accounts

Bug #1547443 reported by Victor gonzalez
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This bug affects 34 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
High
Alejandro J. Cura
Canonical System Image x1 "xenial bringup"

Bug Description

Users wanted to know if backup support is included in Canonical's roadmap, they find very important having an app/UI/procedure to backup their data/apps and/or online accounts.

Product: E4.5 & E5
FW version: OTA-9

Actual Result:
Ther is no app or procedure to save userdata/apps or online accounts.

Expected Result:

1. Have an app for userdata backup or online accounts backup.
2. i.e: Implement userdata backup from recovery as in Android devices, but it has its limitations:
- 4Gb max weight due to FAT32 file format
- Needs to be done with the same device(same board, otherwise it will fail)
- Even preferable with the same FW version when backup is restored.

Tags: bq wishlist
Victor gonzalez (victor-gonzalez-0)
tags: added: wishlist
Revision history for this message
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

Planned as part of the data storage framework implementations

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Lorn Potter (lorn-potter) wrote :

It would be a nice feature if this backup app could backup to online/cloud storage such as dropbox/google drive, etc online storage.

As well as export or some way to not be tied to the same device as one would do when upgrading the hardware to a new phone for an example.

imho this is one big gaping hole in functionality.

Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
milestone: backlog → 12
Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Wishlist → High
Revision history for this message
Robin Heroldich (robinheroldich) wrote :

I use rc-proposed and test a lot of silos, so it would be a really useful feature for me. I use some custom scripts for backup/restore, but an "official" feature would be better, especially for the "simple" users. :)

Revision history for this message
Daniel Frost (k-one) wrote :

An official backup/restore function really is missing. Manually copying the files (yep me) or custom scripts (#3) are not "up to date".

I would like to suggest, that any backup tool should not only support online accounts but also local backup/restore with another computer/laptop. Not everyone wants to share his/her data with a cloud. ;-)

Revision history for this message
Cesar Herrera (chg1) wrote :

+1

Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
milestone: 12 → xenial
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