Hello, maintainer here. Happy to see this little project on the front page of HN...

qot · 2024-08-12T01:40:19 1723426819

Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.

replete · 2024-08-12T15:23:12 1723476192

Are you rooted? Have you ever tried restoring a backup in this way?

Backup on android (without Google Services' online) is awful, SeedVault exists but has issues.

cyberpunk · 2024-08-12T03:11:57 1723432317

Am I missing something? Your phone isn’t using encrypted storage?

LoganDark · 2024-08-12T04:32:56 1723437176

Encrypted storage is an implementation detail of the filesystem. Once you're at the point of connecting an unlocked phone to a computer running ADB, you can just transfer files and not care about whether or not the underlying data is encrypted at rest.

politelemon · 2024-08-12T09:55:12 1723456512

Hi there do you think adbfs could work with adb over TCP (wifi)?

politelemon · 2024-08-12T19:56:11 1723492571

Answer - yes it can.

Pair over TCP like normal, connect to it, then follow the README.

``` adb pair xxx:xxx

adb connect yyy:yyy

adb devices

mkdir -p testhere

./adbfs testhere

ls testhere ```

Neywiny · 2024-08-11T22:56:15 1723416975

Hi maintainer, can you please outline the differences in functionality between using this on a rooted vs non-rooted device? Thank you

spion · 2024-08-11T23:00:51 1723417251

I've never used it with a rooted device! :)

I don't think there should be any significant difference in funcitonality, other than perhaps the set of directories accessible. In general, you should be able to access anything that you can view / access using `adb shell ls`, `adb pull` and `adb push`

Neywiny · 2024-08-11T23:29:04 1723418944

Understood, thanks. I thought there was some exploit or something in play.

spion · 2024-08-11T23:33:36 1723419216

Nothing that exciting, I'm afraid.

andrewshadura · 2024-08-12T17:12:34 1723482754

Can't you somehow run adb on real Linux?