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How to back up encrypted /data atomically in Android 12?

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I accidentally upgraded my phone to Android 12 instead of a newer Android 11 and, to my dismay, it seems encryption was changed in a way that makes TWRP unable to decrypt my /data. For backups, I ran [borgbackup](https://www.borgbackup.org/) on /data from TWRP and would like to continue doing so. This strategy relied on TWRP being able to decrypt /data however. Is there another way to get: * Decrypted /data * No active processes modifying /data (ideally have it readonly) * Shell access * A writable rootfs where I can create a subdirectory to mount a tmpfs on I tried using Magisk to mount -o remount,ro /data in a running system but that didn't work: mount: '/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata'->'/data': Device or resource busy
Asked by Atemu (609 rep)
May 27, 2022, 02:44 PM
Last activity: Jun 9, 2023, 06:32 AM