Does anybody have experience with the apps Neo Backup, DataBackup or ideally both?

I would like to know if there are any differences in terms of functionality, capability or reliability? Like, is there some kind of app data, that one can backup/restore while the other can’t? Are there speed differences in the backup/restore process? etc.

I’ve searched the internet for some comparisons but couldn’t find much.

For context: I want to transfer all my apps to a new phone. In the past, I’ve used Titanium Backup for this, but it doesn’t seem to be very up-to-date anymore. Now, Neo Backup and Data Backup seem to be the most promising (besides maybe SwiftBackup, but that’s not open source and only available through the Play Store, it seems). So now I could of course just use one app first, backup everything on my old phone, restore everything on the new one and then look through all the apps to see what worked and what didn’t. But it would be easier if I could get a hint on which one might be more suitable for my needs :)

Also, if you would recommend to use another app instead, please tell me!

Thank you all!

Links

Neo Backup

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup

GitHub: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup

DataBackup

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.xayah.databackup.foss

GitHub: https://github.com/XayahSuSuSu/Android-DataBackup

  • ShimitarAEnglish
    6·
    16 days ago

    I used to use neo backup. Works nice.

    Bit stopped, nowadays all apps are online synched (to my self hosted server mostly) and so I don’t need backups.

    • InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      I agree with in-app backup solution.

      There are three types of apps on my phone:

      • Apps that don’t have any important local data (calculator, calendar (synced with web(cal/DAV/…), etc) for which a basic apk backup is enough and doesn’t cause any data corruption.
      • Apps that have changing important data and implement backups (WhatsApp, signal)
      • Apps that have important data, but that data is static (voyager, Mixplorer) in which I export the data once using in-app settings

      Photos are backed up using immich, internal storage is backed up using restic in termux, started automatically from tasker.

      This whole setup doesn’t require root btw, with root you can also backup system settings. The only thing I’d want to improve is not having to login to all the apps again but I had to do that even with root backups in the past so I’ll have to wait until google finally stops trying to force everyone into their shitty cloud backups. (Tough chance that…)

    • arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      1·
      16 days ago

      Alright, thank you!

      A question on the self hosted app backups: Do you mean using synchronization functionalities that the apps themselves have built-in? Like using a contacts app that syncs the contacts via CardDav? Or do you actually synchronize the apps themselves with their app-specific data (like settings etc.)? Because if that is possible, I would be very interested!

      • ShimitarAEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Mostly carddav caldav and WebDAV. Plus using apps that connect to self hosted services like audiobookshelf or navidrome

        • arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          Ah I see. Yeah I try to do the same as much as possible. But there still are those apps that just don’t offer such functionality, unfortunately.