hello, I'm looking for a solution for the problem below : all leads are welcome ! the adb tool is able to make a backup of a smartphone in a file: adb backup -all -f mybackup.ab however, the file mybackup.ab has a particular format that prevents it from being used "simply". to convert it into a tgz archive, it is possible to do this: ( printf "\x1f\x8b\x08\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"; tail -c +25 mybackup.ab ) > mybackup.tgz but in this case, I can easily end up with two files of 16Gb or more... to avoid this volume problem, I tried to do this: mkfifo backup.fifo adb backup -all -f backup.fifo & ( printf "\x1f\x8b\x08\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" ; tail -c +25 backup.fifo) > mybackup.tgz but adb systematically breaks my named pipe and my code doesn't work as expected. how to prevent adb from breaking the named pipe ? I'm considering using fuse but there may be a simpler way... regards, lacsaP.
