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A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2021-01-11 · latest 2026-06-16

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  1. …backup everything[1]. Are there more-functional, non-root, local (non-cloud) alternatives? [1]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ#why-do-s...
    comment by genpfault · 2026-06-16 · in GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
  2. …backup and restore. It's not 100% reliably across devices apparently, but should typically work: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/discussions/331#d... This requires both phones to use Seedvault though, so it's not an option when…
    comment by neobrain · 2025-10-12 · in LineageOS 23
  3. …are backed up using Immich, and the rest is handled with Seedvault [1] to my Nextcloud server. [1] https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault
    comment by yonatan8070 · 2025-01-10 · in Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
  4. …that's actually useful (full app data + secondary stuff like KeyStore entries) nowadays? [1]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ#why-do-s...
    comment by genpfault · 2024-12-31 · in LineageOS 22
  5. https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault It's included in GrapheneOS, so you can backup things like WiFi passwords to a local NextCloud server.
    comment by e44858 · 2024-07-09 · in Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
  6. …give Seedvault another look since they merged device2device-transfer in the beginning of the year https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/pull/562
    comment by flas9sd · 2024-04-15 · in Better adb shell
  7. …[2] https://support.google.com/android/answer/6193424?hl=en [3] https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/issues/165 [4] https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/pull/562 [5] https://stackpointer.io/mobile/android-enabl
    comment by rkagerer · 2023-10-05 · in Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
  8. …for those using GrapheneOS and Calyx, but should work for other degoogled Android phones. https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault
    comment by kornhole · 2021-11-14 · in Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?
  9. https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/issues/165 this is the issue, and it seems they are working on it. Good. What I didn't understand is why one would need to fake some Device2Device transfer, when one could just as well patch the…
    comment by summm · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
  10. …was recently added thanks to a grant from NLnet - https://nlnet.nl/project/Seedvault/index.html https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault Contributions welcome!
    comment by cdesai · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
  11. …that come with MicroG pre-installed. [2]: https://auroraoss.com/ [3]: https://syncthing.net [4]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault [5]: http://grapheneos.org/ [6]: https://github.com/hashbang/aosp-build [7]:…
    comment by codethief · 2021-04-01 · in LineageOS 18.1
  12. …phone. It basically acts as a drop-in replacement of the backup service provided by Google. [0]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault
    comment by codethief · 2021-01-11 · in Malware on My Android Phone