/sync-rpi

Sync scripts for phone and computer running on the Raspberry Pi

Primary LanguageShellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

sync-rpi

Sync scripts for phone and computer running on the Raspberry Pi

Scripts

phone.sh

Script that backs-up data from the phone

The script uses adb-tools to do the syncing, and in particular uses adb-sync a simple Python script that wraps some of the adb-tools to provide rsync like functionality.

Setup

  1. Ensure that adb is installed. 
    sudo apt install adb
  2. Clone adb-sync and ensure it is on $PATH 
    git clone https://github.com/google/adb-sync.git

export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/adb-sync
  3. Enable USB Debugging mode on the phone
  4. Ensure that the Raspberry Pi and the phone are connected on the same network, and allow adb to connect using tcpip connections. You can enable this setting by connecting your phone via USB to your laptop, and you needn’t connect it to your RPi.
  5. Run phone.sh and profit!

Known issues

adb pull doesn’t seem to work for files larger than 2GB from the Raspberry Pi. I suspect it is something to do with the build of adb-tools but haven’t spent too much time debugging it.

It is very rare for me to have files >2GB on my phone, and the work around for me is to copy those files manually, for now.