Timeline for How to extract .backup files created by android stock recovery?
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| Apr 10, 2016 at 4:31 | comment | added | Jones | @DeathMaskSalesman - Now I'm able to see the internals of backup, although I couldn't retrieve anything yet. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | Grimoire | @Jones Then we should perform an hexadecimal dump in order to manually analyze the file. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | Jones | @DeathMaskSalesman - Used file with c flag. No patterns found. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | Grimoire | As an alternative to this manual procedure, you may also want to check if your Ubuntu distro has the file or the magic command, which are able to identify files by examining their header. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Grimoire | @Jones No, it just means that your build of md5sum does not support the -v flag. You may want to skip the -e flag as well, and use md5sum -C instead. This will output both the hexadecimal code and its ASCII transliteration. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 15:12 | comment | added | Jones | @DeathMaskSalesman - "md5sum: invalid option -- 'v'" I'm getting this error. Am I missing something? | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 12:20 | comment | added | Grimoire | @Jones Are you able to use md5sum? If yes, then try to issue md5sum -ve '1/1 "%02X "' userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup | head -n 10, then tell us the output. This way, we could try to identify the file type for you. | |
| Apr 8, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | Jones | First method didn't work because of "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: This does not look like a tar archive". simg2img can't open the merged file. "Cannot open input file userdata.backup". Any other ideas? How to do with fallocate as another user mentioned? | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 19:54 | comment | added | Jones | Tried with Cygwin, unable to cat files (no space issue). Downloading ubuntu for VM and update the status. | |
| Apr 7, 2016 at 19:49 | history | answered | Chahk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |