Backupper

Command line tool to take phone's media backup to desktop wirelessly

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It works by having ftp server on the phone(es file explorer, solid explorer..) and setting up required configuration to start the backup. It has resuming download capabilities, It is fast and configurable.

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Features

• Quite Fast 🚀

• Resumable & Incremental Download 📥

• Very Configurable 🔧

Download

• Please download platform specific binaries from here.

Build from source

• Make sure you have Go installed and have in your path

• fetch this repository

$ go get github.com/jigarWala/backupper

• binary available in

$ $HOME/go/bin/backupper

Usage

• Start FTP server on your phone

• prepare configuration file for your usecase

Key	Required	Default	Comments
server	yes	NA	compulsory key
port	yes	NA	compulsory key
username	no	anonymous	"anonymous" is used for no username
password	no	anonymous	"anonymous" is used for no password
include_dir	no	[ "/" ]	/ or the whole server directory is considered
exclude_dir	no	[ ]	no directory is excluded
base_dir	no	check comments =>	backup is created in the directory where executable resides

sample json config file

{
"server":"192.168.0.102",
"port":"9999",
"include_dir":["Download","DCIM/Camera","Music","Movies","WhatsApp"],
"exclude_dir":["/Music/NewPipe","WhatsApp/Databases"],
"base_dir": "/home/jigar/Desktop/backups"
}

• Execute the command

$ ./backupper path/to/configuration-file.json

Checklist

• Can Resume Download from where it stopped?

• Configurable Backups via json config file

• Better Error handling

• Better Logging

• Concurrent Downloads

Why I made this?

I wanted to backup my screenshots, camera roll, music, whatsapp media etc to my local machine. Ofcourse there are adb configurable scripts available, But I wanted it to be wireless and also there are cloud backups available too like google drive. But it is quite slow as my internet speed is not so fast. I wanted to learn Golang :)

It is very fast and accessible for me and maybe others can find it useful too.

Contributing

Please reach out to me if you wish to contribute to this project.

Authors

• Jigar Wala - jigarWala

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT - see the LICENSE file for details